The Jungle Boy

Duration: 15 min
Release date: 1985-03-08
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While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, her husband confronts the politics of fantasy and washroom sex. A pseudo-narrative whose disparate threads unite in the final "documentary" sequence.

Documentary Drama

The Jungle Boy

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John Greyson
John Greyson
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