Wild Grass (2009) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Les Herbes folles (Wild Grass)
Year
2009
Running time
99 min.
Country
France
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Drama. Romance. Comedy | Experimental Cinema. Romantic Comedy. Romantic Drama
Synopsis
Marguerite is a successful dentist with a busy practice and an offbeat hobby, flying small airplanes. One day, Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy man with a wife, Suzanne, and two children. As Georges 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.
Awards
2009: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)
2009: César Awards: 4 Nominations including Best Film
2013: Sant Jordi Awards: Best International Actor.
Critics' reviews
- "It's a cocktail-party movie with a Molotov-cocktail finish: a tribute to the 88-year-old auteur's artistry"
- "It is craftsmanship incarnate and the embodiment of tonal unpredictability."
- "The picture is marked by superb performances and a dazzling technical display by the helmer and praiseworthy cinematographer Eric Gautier."
- "Whatever it is, 'Wild Grass' is so overtly artificial and aggressively trifling that it's bound to put some viewers off, though it's also so bright and funny that it's hard not to be at least a little enchanted"
- " Visually scrumptious, as if culled from the pages of good-taste magazines, it has the appeal of a designer catalog, and also the depth."
- "Here is a young man's film made with a lifetime of experience."
- "With its comic-book hues, crime-caper score, overly serious narrator, interior monologues and surreal touches, 'Wild Grass' proves Resnais is still having fun with cinematic language."
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