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Wild Grass

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Georges Palet comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir retrieves the wallet and asks who found it. She calls to thank Georges, but he wants more than a pat on the back. Though he's married, Georges begins to follow Marguerite, demanding that they spend time together. She finally agrees, setting in motion a relationship marked by emotional turbulence.
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Precious to a fault, Wild Grass finds 88-year-old director Alain Resnais as joyously unconstrained as ever.

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Jonathan Romney Sight & Sound 07/30/2018
It is all so glorious, and all so frustrating... Resnais fully finds here what he has sought since at least Life is a Bed of Roses in 1983: an unbearable lightness of being. Go to Full Review Jonathan F. Richards Film.com 09/21/2010
Alain Resnais keeps sprouting marvelous artistic herbage at an age when most of his contemporaries are pushing up grass from a different perspective. Go to Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle 08/20/2010
2.5/5
Resnais' funky, frothy bonbon of a film is nevertheless a breathtaking sight to see. Go to Full Review Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 08/10/2022
Wild Grass is more than a movie, it's an act of prestigitatation. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com 09/27/2020
3.5/4.0
Dussollier and Azema are a joy. Go to Full Review Adrian Martin Film Critic: Adrian Martin 06/26/2020
At the age of 88, former wunderkind Alain Resnais made his friskiest film in years with this astonishing comedy of unconscious desire. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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jonathan g 11/25/2022 This is a stupid, sick, inane, senseless, un- entertaining, insipid, perverse, cartoon characture of a film, that rings false in every detail. Too filled with violent, criminal behavior to be amusing, anyone who was laughing at the " whimsey" of this film should really have their heads examined. Imagine your senile grandfather who cant get himself to the bathroom making a movie and you'll get an idea what this is like. See more dave s 07/17/2021 Just when you think Alain Resnais has made a movie that makes perfect sense, despite the eccentricities of the two main characters and an odd storyline, he throws in a final scene of a character never before seen in the film uttering the line "when I'm a cat, will I be able to eat cat munchies?" Huh? Cat munchies? What am I missing here, or is this just Resnais winking to the audience in an "I got you" moment? Wild Grass is the story of a man, one who has some unrevealed nastiness in his past, who finds the wallet of a woman who seems unable to refrain from inflicting pain on her dental patients. Enough said of the plot. The movie is an absolute visual feast as cinematographer Eric Gautier uses a vibrant color pallet and a probing lens to examine the strange relationship between the lead characters. It's a joy to watch and a pleasure trying to figure out where the madness will lead, but cat munchies? Baffling. See more 07/23/2018 The most infuriating film I have ever seen See more 12/17/2015 Alain Resnais that gave us so great film like "Hiroshima my love" or "Last year in Marienbad", after all this time take a lot of licenses and made this film in the border of quantum uncertainty, using a narrator, because without him we could get lost in the labyrinths of the story. Weird, refreshing and defiant for the mind. See more 06/15/2014 im not redoing this again See more 09/29/2013 This is a strange movie. It almost demands that you treat it like a thriller, your mind spinning with the possibilities of what might happen next. But it is better viewed without all that internal noise. Just sit back, relax into Zen repose and let the movie flow over you. See more Read all reviews
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Alain Resnais

Director

Sabine Azéma

Marguerite Muir

André Dussollier

Georges Palet

Anne Consigny

Suzanne Palet

Emmanuelle Devos

Josepha

Mathieu Amalric

Bernard de Bordeaux

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Synopsis Georges Palet comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir retrieves the wallet and asks who found it. She calls to thank Georges, but he wants more than a pat on the back. Though he's married, Georges begins to follow Marguerite, demanding that they spend time together. She finally agrees, setting in motion a relationship marked by emotional turbulence.
Director
Alain Resnais
Producer
Jean-Louis Livi
Screenwriter
Alex Reval, Laurent Herbiet, Christian Gailly
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co
F Comme Film, StudioCanal, France 2 Cinéma, BIM Distribuzione
Rating
PG (Some Thematic Material|Language|Brief Smoking)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 25, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$403.6K
Runtime
1h 44m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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