Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes

Wild Grass

PG Released Jun 25, 2010 1h 44m Drama List
68% Tomatometer 91 Reviews 37% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
Georges Palet (Sabine Azéma) comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir (André Dussollier) 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.
Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

Where to Watch

Wild Grass

Wild Grass

What to Know

Critics Consensus

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

Read Critics Reviews

Critics Reviews

View All (91) Critics Reviews
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 Full Review 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 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Resnais' funky, frothy bonbon of a film is nevertheless a breathtaking sight to see. Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 20, 2010 Full Review 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 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Dussollier and Azema are a joy. Rated: 3.5/4.0 Sep 27, 2020 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (118) audience reviews
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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member The most infuriating film I have ever seen Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member im not redoing this again Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
Wild Grass

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Where Angels Fear to Tread 64% 52% Where Angels Fear to Tread The Last Song 21% 65% The Last Song Villa Amalia 75% 40% Villa Amalia Daddy Nostalgia 88% 81% Daddy Nostalgia Discover more movies and TV shows. View More

Movie Info

Synopsis Georges Palet (Sabine Azéma) comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir (André Dussollier) 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
Jean-Louis Livi
Screenwriter
Alex Reval, Laurent Herbiet, Christian Gailly
Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co
BIM Distribuzione, F Comme Film, France 2 Cinéma, StudioCanal
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
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
Most Popular at Home Now