Wild Tigers I Have Known
Drama
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2006
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A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
Director:
Cast:
Same Director
Details
Rated:
NOT RATED
Runtime:
88 min
Release date:
12 Jul 2006
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$9,946
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
This is lyricism at its most extreme, at once gripping and off-putting because Archer views his characters as if he were gawking at them through the bars of a cage.
– Ed Gonzalez,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2007
fresh:
[Director] Archer isn't necessarily taking us anywhere new, but his movie's rapture is beautiful inside and out.
– Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe,
13 Apr 2007
rotten:
Wild Tigers I Have Known studiously avoids the cliches of the genre. It's also exasperatingly inconclusive. Its dreamy, enigmatic characters often fail to engage.
– John Hartl,
Seattle Times,
13 Apr 2007
rotten:
The filmmaker, Cam Archer, seems to be trying for a mood of hazy self-pity, which he achieves just enough to make you wish he'd get over it.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Mar 2007
rotten:
While there's something admirable in [director] Archer's attempt at making an ambient song of the self out of the protagonist's search for sexual identity (along with some heavily metaphorical mountain-lion attacks), the result is empty.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
3 Mar 2007