Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.
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,
22 Jul 2010
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,
23 Jul 2010
fresh:
What can you say: The French sure know how to make pretty pictures.
– Kerry Lengel,
Arizona Republic,
29 Jul 2010
fresh:
At age 88, Resnais hasn't lost his capacity to confound.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
12 Aug 2010
fresh:
Alain Resnais keeps sprouting marvelous artistic herbage at an age when most of his contemporaries are pushing up grass from a different perspective.