Director: Nicolette Krebitz, colour, 97 Min., 2016
Cast: Lilith Stagenberg, Georg Friedrich, Sike Bodenbender, Saskia Rosendahl, Kotti Yun, Laurie Young
Things could hardly get off to a less spectacular start: in a faceless city in the east of Germany, Ania, a spineless wallflower, works in a nameless company. Day in, day out, she takes the tram from her drab housing estate to work, sits at her computer, fetches coffee for her boss Boris, and is not really there at all. But then something happens that turns her entire life upside down: she catches sight of a wolf, albeit only briefly, passing by. Ania cannot stop thinking about the wolf, so she tries to catch the creature. Gradually a relationship develops that will change Anias’s ordered but boring life forever.
Nicolette Krebitz’s wild and surprising story of a woman risking everything is a timeless fairy tale completely devoid of kitsch. With its poetical visual imagery and radicalness, Wild is a masterpiece that is made for the big screen.
Like in a real-life fairy tale, Wild tells the story of a woman and a wolf in an incredibly powerful manner, without the least bit of kitsch.
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