Wild Grass
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 25, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
5
Negative:
4
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Arizona RepublicKerry Lengel
Wild Grass retains a literary feel with the help of an unseen narrator, who offers intriguing poetic observations. And Resnais' visuals are equally lyrical. What can you say: The French sure know how to make pretty pictures. Read full review
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Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Who, exactly, is stalking whom, and for what reason? I'm still not entirely sure, but Resnais' funky, frothy bonbon of a film is nevertheless a breathtaking sight to see. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.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
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
In its refusal to connect the dots, Wild Grass is playful unto tediousness, and between Azéma's overly cutesy performance -- all Harpo Marx hair-frizz and popped eyes -- and Mark Snow's painfully (purposefully?) banal lounge-jazz score, the movie functions as a theoretical irritant rather than a film. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDuane Byrge
Narratively, Wild Grass is a fractured romance, that never jells on any level, except for the backdrop visuals. Visually scrumptious, as if culled from the pages of good-taste magazines, it has the appeal of a designer catalog, and also the depth. Read full review
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