Sauvage

(English: Wild) is a 2018 French drama film, directed by Camille Vidal-Naquet and produced by Emmanuel Giraud and Marie Sonne-Jensen. It stars Félix Maritaud in the lead role, with Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla and Philippe Ohrel. premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, where it won the Rising Star Award and was nominated for 3 others. Premise Léo (Félix Maritaud) is a male sex worker who uses drugs whilst longing for love. Cast Félix Maritaud as Léo Éric Bernard as Ahd Nicolas Dibla as Mihal Philippe Ohrel as Claude Themes and production was Vidal-Naquet's first feature film; his experience working with the Catholic charity helped him to create the film. The film focuses on a young male sex worker, played by Félix Maritaud, with frequent explicit sex scenes; Vidal-Naquet "emphasizes [that] the sex we see in is work". During pre-production, Vidal-Naquet and his director of photography Jacques Girault spent months planning out the camera work, performances and, particularly, the lighting and how it would work with other elements; he explained that he "wanted to film the sex scenes to be no different than the others" because "lighting is moral".