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Wild Tigers I Have Known (2007)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 07, 2007

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: Feb 28, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 98 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Malcolm Stumpf and Patrick White

$PAPER-THIN \'TIGERS\' Fairuza Balk and Malcolm Stumpf should have Known better Wild Tigers I Have Known$

Image credit: Wild Tigers I Have Known: Allison Watkins

PAPER-THIN 'TIGERS' Fairuza Balk and Malcolm Stumpf should have Known better

Fragmentation can be an artful method; it can also be the last refuge for someone who scarcely knows how to make a film. In the no-budget fantasia Wild Tigers I Have Known, the fragments are like a borrowed collage of gay coming-of-age tropes — a boy wearing lipstick, or standing in a sunset field, accompanied by soporific I-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud voice-over. 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.

Originally posted Mar 07, 2007 Published in issue #925 Mar 16, 2007 Order article reprints

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