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France, Italy · 2009
Rated PG · 1h 44m
Director Alain Resnais
Starring André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric
Genre Drama, Romance
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Marguerite loses her wallet and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy husband and father. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, but his curiosity soon evolves into a damaging obsession.
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.
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.
An insufferable exercise in cutie-pie modernism, painfully unfunny and precious to a fault.
The picture is marked by superb performances and a dazzling technical display by the helmer and praiseworthy cinematographer Eric Gautier.
Alain Resnais's mind-bending new feature.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa 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.
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.
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.
The New York Times by Stephen 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."
Boxoffice Magazine by Steve Ramos
Resnais' storytelling is in top form. Turning 88 this June, he's an inspiration to us all.
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