Something Wild restlessly stitches together a pattern that is wholly unique, something totally its own: costume designer Norma Moriceau's ceaselessly rainbowed designs, the unflinching rawness of Tak Fujimoto’s photography, a score by The Velvet Underground’s John Cale, the David Byrne frills, the American sensuality and vulgarity, the stylistic gearshifts from wicked comedy to wickedly violent darkness, and most of all a natural-born rebel’s deep empathy for—and extreme close-up on...