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- 2010
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 44 m
- 2010
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 44 m
Summary A wallet lost and found opens the door - slightly - to Georges and Marguerite’s romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn in to the police the red wallet he has found. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As G...
Directed By: Alain Resnais
Written By: Christian Gailly, Laurent Herbiet, Alain Resnais
- 2010
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 44 m
- 2010
- PG
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 44 m
Wild Grass
65
6.7
Where to Watch
Summary A wallet lost and found opens the door - slightly - to Georges and Marguerite’s romantic adventure. After examining the ID of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn in to the police the red wallet he has found. Nor can Marguerite retrieve her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about the person who found it. As G...
Directed By: Alain Resnais
Written By: Christian Gailly, Laurent Herbiet, Alain Resnais
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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65% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
19% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
15% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
65
65% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
19% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
15% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
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.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
6.7
60% Positive
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20% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
6.7
60% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
20% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
20% Negative
2 Ratings
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With a surrealist spin on romantic comedy, Alain Resnais' Wild Grass features fully realized characters wrapped up in life's sublime silliness. It's a playful film that tantalizes us as mystery deepens. If Georges Palet (Andre Dussollier) is caught up in imagination, Marguerite (Sabine Azema) is drawn in by empathy for her benevolent stalker, a man in his sixties with memory loss who yearns for some genuine adventure in life.
Marguerite, a 50-ish dentist weary of inflicting pain, falls in love with the idea of Georges falling in love with her. It all begins when she has her purse snatched one day by a rollerblader in a Paris shopping mall. Her bright yellow bag floats through the air, fashionable and fanciful. Marguerite's red wallet (which matches her shock of red hair), shows up empty of cash but intact near Georges' car.
By the time Georges returns her wallet to the police, he is already enamored with the woman he's never met. After all, she has a pilot's license! The possibilities are endless.
Marguerite calls Georges to thank him. When they finally meet, he deadpans, "You love me, then." The fact that Georges is married to a young wife Suzanne (Anne Consigny) is almost irrelevant. As the balance of power shifts and Marguerite pursues Georges, she befriends Suzanne and inserts herself as a friend of the family.
With many asides and allusions, Wild Grass is worth seeing twice to savor its complexity. It doesnâ
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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.
Still, when a director of his pedigree and years brings so much life to the screen, inconsistency hardly seems to matter.
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.
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.
An insufferable exercise in cutie-pie modernism, painfully unfunny and precious to a fault.
If you're a filmgoer who needs neat, tidy plot lines and a tightly wrapped ending, do not go see this movie. If you're a fan of being provoked and/or incited by a director (think Von Trier or Haneke), you'll love it. It's one long meditation on our expectations as well-trained, Pavlovian, Hollywood-fed viewers. It's fantastic.
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The first 2/3 of this is a sharp, funny psychological thriller / sophisticated comedy. But then the story takes a surprise turn, and things get loonier from there on out. Resnais likes to get into mind games with his audience. Despite the frustrating finish, it is still a beautiful film to look at, with excellent camera work and settings. Andre Dussollier is fine as the male lead, and it is interesting to see Mathieu Amalric playing a cop.
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Production Company
F Comme Film,
StudioCanal,
France 2 Cinéma,
BIM Distribuzione,
Canal+,
TPS Star,
Eurimages,
Cinémage 3,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
La Région Île-de-France
Release Date Jun 25, 2010
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating PG
Awards
César Awards, France
• 4 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 2 Nominations
