The Wound's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
'Mr. Trengove shoots the film in intimate wide-screen, getting in close to the performers as their characters tamp down explosive feelings, often letting the spectacular landscapes behind them break down into soft-focus abstractions. His direction is perfectly judged up to and including the shudder-inducing ending'.
Roger Ebert
"The result is a dark and stirring variation on the standard coming-of-age narrative that, much like its central characters, does not follow the path one might expect".
Indiewire
"The plot ends in a place that feels honest and true, but it gets lost in a kind of narrative no-man?s land on its way there".
The Hollywood Reporter
Trengove builds a sense of dread among the three central characters, their wary gazes and physical provocations brimming with potential violence.
Variety
Cinematographer Paul Özgür?s widescreen lens negotiates a tricky balance of representation, lingering over the unfamiliar symbols and textures of Xhosa tradition (...) without exoticizing them for art?s sake. (...) In ?The Wound,? modernity and tradition each yield scars of their own.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote