Chéreau excelled at modestly scaled portraits of people coming undone by their needs, particularly when they can’t articulate them. That’s especially the case with The Wounded Man....a film of potent, unsanitized eros.

Gorgeously restored, Patrice Chéreau's erotically-charged '80s queer classic 'The Wounded Man' finally comes to digital home video.

Anchored by a strong performance from Jean-Hugues Anglade that oozes sensuality and uncertainty, The Wounded Man is not a cheery portrayal of young lust and cruising, but instead feels indebted to rising tensions in the community in the 80s.

...a bold, edgy, nasty and wholly beguiling coming-of-age tale...A fully committed Jean-Hugues Anglade plays Henri, a confused, sexually-repressed 20-year-old who becomes obsessed with the enigmatic Jean (brooding and intense Vittorio Mezzogiorno)...