Fresh
Alain Resnais keeps sprouting marvelous artistic herbage at an age when most of his contemporaries are pushing up grass from a different perspective.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
Overview
A quirky woman who spends her free time as a pilot has her purse stolen; a mysterious man finds her wallet, and they embark on a peculiar romance.
Director and cast
- Alain Resnais Director
- André Dussollier as Georges Palet
- Sabine Azéma as Marguerite Muir
- Emmanuelle Devos as Josepha
- Mathieu Amalric as Bernard de Bordeaux
- Anne Consigny as Suzanne Palet
- Michel Vuillermoz as Lucien d'Orange
- Annie Cordy as la dame de l'immeuble de Marguerite
- Nicolas Duvauchelle as Jean-Mi
- Roger Pierre as Marcel Schwer
- Paul Crauchet as le 1er patient
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
68%
Tomatometer
Fresh
At age 88, Resnais hasn't lost his capacity to confound.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
What can you say: The French sure know how to make pretty pictures.
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic
Rotten
Wild Grass might be the strangest film I've seen all year. Maybe all millennium. Is it any good? Quite frankly, I have no idea.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh
Along with such fantasy elements as rich, primary colors and an ending that suggests we've jumped to some other cinematic dimension, Wild Grass, like compulsive filmmaking, embraces the intensity of subjective experience...
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
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