Wild Grass

PG

Released Jun 25, 2010

1h 44m

Drama

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68%

91 Reviews

Tomatometer

37%

1,000+ Ratings

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Georges Palet (André Dussollier) comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir (Sabine Azéma) retrieves the wallet and asks who found it. She calls to thank Georges, but he wants more than a pat on the back. Though he's married, Georges begins to follow Marguerite, demanding that they spend time together. She finally agrees, setting in motion a relationship marked by emotional turbulence.

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Critics Consensus

Precious to a fault, Wild Grass finds 88-year-old director Alain Resnais as joyously unconstrained as ever.

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Jonathan Romney

Sight & Sound

It is all so glorious, and all so frustrating... Resnais fully finds here what he has sought since at least Life is a Bed of Roses in 1983: an unbearable lightness of being.

Jul 30, 2018

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Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

Rated: 3/4

Jan 31, 2011

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Alain Resnais keeps sprouting marvelous artistic herbage at an age when most of his contemporaries are pushing up grass from a different perspective.

Sep 21, 2010

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Wild Grass is more than a movie, it's an act of prestigitatation. [Full review in Spanish]

Aug 10, 2022

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Dussollier and Azema are a joy.

Rated: 3.5/4.0

Sep 27, 2020

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Adrian Martin

Film Critic: Adrian Martin

At the age of 88, former wunderkind Alain Resnais made his friskiest film in years with this astonishing comedy of unconscious desire.

Jun 26, 2020

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jonathan g

This is a stupid, sick, inane, senseless, un- entertaining, insipid, perverse, cartoon characture of a film, that rings false in every detail. Too filled with violent, criminal behavior to be amusing, anyone who was laughing at the " whimsey" of this film should really have their heads examined. Imagine your senile grandfather who cant get himself to the bathroom making a movie and you'll get an idea what this is like.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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dave s

Just when you think Alain Resnais has made a movie that makes perfect sense, despite the eccentricities of the two main characters and an odd storyline, he throws in a final scene of a character never before seen in the film uttering the line "when I'm a cat, will I be able to eat cat munchies?" Huh? Cat munchies? What am I missing here, or is this just Resnais winking to the audience in an "I got you" moment? Wild Grass is the story of a man, one who has some unrevealed nastiness in his past, who finds the wallet of a woman who seems unable to refrain from inflicting pain on her dental patients. Enough said of the plot. The movie is an absolute visual feast as cinematographer Eric Gautier uses a vibrant color pallet and a probing lens to examine the strange relationship between the lead characters. It's a joy to watch and a pleasure trying to figure out where the madness will lead, but cat munchies? Baffling.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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floyd b

Is definitely a slow growing grass movie (about reincarnation). Two mentally ill individuals eventually meet an hour and 5 minutes into the 1 hour, 40 minutes movie. Too slow. The ending is obviously very enigmatic, but obvious.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

The most infuriating film I have ever seen

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

Alain Resnais that gave us so great film like "Hiroshima my love" or "Last year in Marienbad", after all this time take a lot of licenses and made this film in the border of quantum uncertainty, using a narrator, because without him we could get lost in the labyrinths of the story. Weird, refreshing and defiant for the mind.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

im not redoing this again

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Alain Resnais

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André Dussollier

Georges Palet

Sabine Azéma

Marguerite Muir

Emmanuelle Devos

Josepha

Mathieu Amalric

Bernard de Bordeaux

Anne Consigny

Suzanne Palet

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Synopsis

Georges Palet (André Dussollier) comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir (Sabine Azéma) retrieves the wallet and asks who found it. She calls to thank Georges, but he wants more than a pat on the back. Though he's married, Georges begins to follow Marguerite, demanding that they spend time together. She finally agrees, setting in motion a relationship marked by emotional turbulence.

Director: Alain Resnais
Producer: Julie Salvador
Screenwriter: Alex Reval, Laurent Herbiet
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Rating: PG (Some Thematic Material|Language|Brief Smoking)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 25, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $403.6K
Runtime: 1h 44m

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