Sauvages (2024)
Kéria (11), a vivid indigenous girl, finds an orphaned baby orang-outan, Oshi in the jungle of Borneo. To keep him safe she brings him to a close-by reserve. But her ambitious father, working as a woodsman, cooperates with a poacher in order to steal the baby. Oshi should be a present to his company’s director. Kéria flees her home with Oshi in search of the protective wooded mountains. She tries to reunite with her beloved grandfather, one of the last hunter-gatherers. But the journey is filled with obstacles. Kéria finally needs to understand, the only way for Oshi to survive in the wilderness, is letting him go. "Savages!" is the story of a friendship larger than life.
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Absolutely Fantastic
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.