Sauvages

Original title: Savages

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An allegory about humankind progresses from a savage state to a civilized form, that is only a cover for its innate barbarism.An allegory about humankind progresses from a savage state to a civilized form, that is only a cover for its innate barbarism.An allegory about humankind progresses from a savage state to a civilized form, that is only a cover for its innate barbarism.

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 nomination total

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7/10

Part Python, part Cold Comfort Farm

Blimey. Well, I saw this years ago, and it's just one of those things that stays with you. Why? Well, here's why: Pythonesque premise meets Merchant-Ivory production values and stylings; weird silent-movie captions; weirdly (and very British) perversity; fresh-as-cress approach and general feeling of a bunch of hugely talented students having a right old lark; mud-caked savages who are, of course, nothing of the sort when you hold them up to typical toff behaviour in civilised society. Like David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, you don't want to be watching this (as I was) when you're at home with 'flu: it does tend to make you think you're iller than you are, and maybe hallucinated something weird happening on TV. Altogether brilliant. A one-off.

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The picture was inspired and influenced by Luis Buñuel's surrealist film L'Ange exterminateur (1962) ["The Exterminating Angel"], made and released about a decade after that picture, and of which the story of this film is considered to be that movie in reverse.