Wild Grass

Name: Wild Grass
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: June 25, 2010
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 65
Cast: André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 25, 2010 | PG

Starring: André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma

Summary: A wallet lost and found opens the door - slightly - to Georges and Marguerite’s romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn in to the police the red wallet he has found. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. AsA wallet lost and found opens the door - slightly - to Georges and Marguerite’s romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn in to the police the red wallet he has found. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As George and Marguerite navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their everyday lives. (Sony Classics)… Expand

Director: Alain Resnais

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 104 min

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Richard Corliss

Dec 14, 2010

It's a cocktail-party movie with a Molotov-cocktail finish: a tribute to the 88-year-old auteur's artistry - and his con artistry as well. Read full review

Mark Jenkins

Wild Grass is an elegant vessel for outlandish thoughts and troubling impulses. In his rejection of cinematic naturalism, Resnais has made a movie that's both utterly contrived and compellingly lifelike. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Wild Grass is a French movie for people afraid of French movies. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

Wild Grass, which employs a wry, self-deprecating voice-over narrator and some highly stylish camerawork, feels like a comic thriller building into a kind of strange romance. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The film is a visual pleasure, using elegant techniques that don't call flashy attention to themselves. The camera is intended to be as omniscient as the narrator, and can occupy the film's space as it pleases and move as it desires. Here is a young man's film made with a lifetime of experience. Read full review

J.R. Jones

The famously oblique French director Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad) won a special award at the Cannes film festival for this existential comedy (2009), whose masterful technique fails to compensate for its glassy characters and mercilessly self-amused tone. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Likely to draw a range of responses. Many will be transported by its gorgeous construction and breathless emotion. Others will find it patently ridiculous. Read full review

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Fanshawe

Sep 18, 2010

If you're a filmgoer who needs neat, tidy plot lines and a tightly wrapped ending, do not go see this movie. If you're a fan of being provoked and/or incited by a director (think Von Trier or Haneke), you'll love it. It's one long meditation on our expectations as well-trained, Pavlovian,If you're a filmgoer who needs neat, tidy plot lines and a tightly wrapped ending, do not go see this movie. If you're a fan of being provoked and/or incited by a director (think Von Trier or Haneke), you'll love it. It's one long meditation on our expectations as well-trained, Pavlovian, Hollywood-fed viewers. It's fantastic.… Expand

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SecretAgentGal

Sep 19, 2010

With a surrealist spin on romantic comedy, Alain Resnais' Wild Grass features fully realized characters wrapped up in life's sublime silliness. It's a playful film that tantalizes us as mystery deepens. If Georges Palet (Andre Dussollier) is caught up in imagination, Marguerite (SabineWith a surrealist spin on romantic comedy, Alain Resnais' Wild Grass features fully realized characters wrapped up in life's sublime silliness. It's a playful film that tantalizes us as mystery deepens. If Georges Palet (Andre Dussollier) is caught up in imagination, Marguerite (Sabine Azema) is drawn in by empathy for her benevolent stalker, a man in his sixties with memory loss who yearns for some genuine adventure in life.

Marguerite, a 50-ish dentist weary of inflicting pain, falls in love with the idea of Georges falling in love with her. It all begins when she has her purse snatched one day by a rollerblader in a Paris shopping mall. Her bright yellow bag floats through the air, fashionable and fanciful. Marguerite's red wallet (which matches her shock of red hair), shows up empty of cash but intact near Georges' car.

By the time Georges returns her wallet to the police, he is already enamored with the woman he's never met. After all, she has a pilot's license! The possibilities are endless.

Marguerite calls Georges to thank him. When they finally meet, he deadpans, "You love me, then." The fact that Georges is married to a young wife Suzanne (Anne Consigny) is almost irrelevant. As the balance of power shifts and Marguerite pursues Georges, she befriends Suzanne and inserts herself as a friend of the family.

With many asides and allusions, Wild Grass is worth seeing twice to savor its complexity. It doesnâ… Expand

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Trailesque

Apr 28, 2023

The first 2/3 of this is a sharp, funny psychological thriller / sophisticated comedy. But then the story takes a surprise turn, and things get loonier from there on out. Resnais likes to get into mind games with his audience. Despite the frustrating finish, it is still a beautiful filmThe first 2/3 of this is a sharp, funny psychological thriller / sophisticated comedy. But then the story takes a surprise turn, and things get loonier from there on out. Resnais likes to get into mind games with his audience. Despite the frustrating finish, it is still a beautiful film to look at, with excellent camera work and settings. Andre Dussollier is fine as the male lead, and it is interesting to see Mathieu Amalric playing a cop.… Expand

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