The Wild Eye

At the centre of the account is a documentary maker. The man is after unusual footage. His aim is to gather scenes that can be shown as real. For that he recognises no limits. He travels from country to country with his crew. He goes to the deserts of Africa. After that he moves on to the war in Vietnam. He pushes the camera in everywhere. He does not shrink from staging events for the record. Those around him grow uneasy in time. The woman he is with draws away for that reason. The film tells all this in a critical light. Philippe Leroy and Delia Boccardo take the leads, with Gabriele Tinti also in the cast, in Paolo Cavara’s Italian film of 1967.