Wild Grass
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 25, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
5
Negative:
4
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100
TimeRichard CorlissDec 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
100
Time OutKeith Uhlich
Alain Resnais's mind-bending new feature. Read full review
90
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Like its would-be lovers, Wild Grass chases itself in circles as it scrambles genres, examining seeing, thinking, remembering and imagining with a zany awareness. In Georges's words: "After the cinema nothing surprises you. Everything is possible." Read full review
90
NPRMark 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
88
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
Although it alludes to romantic conventions, with overt references to Hollywood history and an overemphatic jazz soundtrack, Wild Grass is neither poignant nor zany. It's an exercise in artifice, not unlike David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" set in the City of Lights. I'm sure the French have a word for it, but je ne sais quoi it is. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
It is craftsmanship incarnate and the embodiment of tonal unpredictability. Read full review
88
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Wild Grass is a French movie for people afraid of French movies. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Wild Grass is itself odd stuff: Sometimes it's as playful as Marguerite's crayon-red corona of frizzy hair, and other times as autumnal as the sight of Georges alone in his study, feeling stuck. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
Whatever it is, Wild Grass is so overtly artificial and aggressively trifling that it's bound to put some viewers off, though it's also so bright and funny that it's hard not to be at least a little enchanted. Resnais' music is so sweet, even when his words are nonsense. Read full review
80
Boxoffice MagazineSteve Ramos
Resnais' storytelling is in top form. Turning 88 this June, he's an inspiration to us all. Read full review
80
EmpireDavid Parkinson
A typically poignant lifestory illuminated by strong turns from Dussollier and Azéma, Alain Resnais' latest is one to stir the brain as well as the heart. Read full review
80
VarietyJordan Mintzer
The picture is marked by superb performances and a dazzling technical display by the helmer and praiseworthy cinematographer Eric Gautier. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie Punter
With its comic-book hues, crime-caper score, overly serious narrator, interior monologues and surreal touches, Wild Grass proves Resnais is still having fun with cinematic language. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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
75
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Still, when a director of his pedigree and years brings so much life to the screen, inconsistency hardly seems to matter. Read full review
75
MovielineMichelle Orange
The roots of romantic feeling, as explored in Wild Grass, Alain Resnais's jazzy ode to cinema and the love impulse in later life, are equally, spectacularly random. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene 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
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