Wild Foxes review – animal-obsessed fighter at elite sports academy wonders if more to life than boxing (opens in new tab)

Valéry Carnoy’s striking film brims with unsynchronised ideas and images, but the physicality and performances of the young cast are undeniable Valéry Carnoy’s fiercely acted but dramatically unfocused film is about a sudden, mysterious crisis of confidence that undermines everything a young man thinks he knows about himself. It’s a brick dislodged from a wall that brings everything crashing down.The setting is a sports boarding school in France; evidently INSEP, the National Institute of Spo...