Sauvage once more employs non-actors in Punk recruiting actual punk kids for this production and inserting his actors into live punk gigs for some scenes. But Punk is more introspective and less emotionally ragged as it focuses on Paul and his internal world. Johnny Mad Dog was filled with clamour and confusion and so too is Punk at times filled with clamour and confusion. This is the second film from Jean-Stephane Sauvage his first being Johnny Mad Dog, a chronicle of boy soldiers in West Africa and made authentic by Sauvage's use of ex-boy soldiers for the key characters. The film does not offer any easy resolution: As it ends so too have some of Paul's endeavours but his story is far from finished. Paul ingratiates himself with a group of punks and through their life style and music he begins the inevitable process of separating from his mother, attempting to contact his father, losing his virginity and living his rage. Paul and his mother (Beatrice Dalle) have a fractured relationship at times close and intimate, sometimes too much so for Paul, and at other points filled with anger and rage. His father left his mother a long time ago and Paul has no contact with him. Punk portrays the rites of passage from boy to man of Paul (Paul Bartel), a 16-year old boy who lives with his single mother in social housing in a city suburb.
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