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Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2009)

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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 81
Fresh: 54 | Rotten: 27

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

Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 8

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

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Alain Resnais, one of the towering figures of the French New Wave, demonstrates he still has plenty to say in this drama based on a novel by Christian Gailly. Marguerite (Sabine Az�ma) is a successful dentist with a busy practice and an offbeat hobby, flying small airplanes. One day, while running errands, Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges (Andr� Dussollier), a seemingly happy man with a wife, Suzanne (Anne Consigny), and two children (Vladimir Consigny and Sara Forestier).

PG, 1 hr. 44 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Comedy, Special Interest

Directed By: Alain Resnais

Written By: Alex R�val

In Theaters: Jun 25, 2010 Wide

On DVD: Oct 26, 2010

Box Office:$0.4M

Sony Classic Pictures

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Cast

Sabine Az�ma
Marguerite Muir
Andr� Dussollier
Georges Palet
Anne Consigny
Suzanne
Emmanuelle Devos
Josépha, Jos�pha, Jos?...
Mathieu Amalric
Bernard de Bordeaux
Michel Vuillermoz
Lucien d'Orange
Edouard Baer
Narrator
Annie Cordy
Neighbor
Sara Forestier
Elodie
Nicolas Duvauchelle
Jean-Mi
Vladimir Consigny
Marcelin Palet
Dominique Rozan
Sikorsky
Jean-No�l Brout�
Mickey
Elric Covarel-Garcia
Marguerite's Acolyte
Val�ry Schatz
Marguerite's Acolyte
St�fan Godin
Marguerite's Acolyte
Gr�gory Perrin
Marguerite's Acolyte
Roger Pierre
Marcel Schwer
Paul Crauchet
Dental Office Patient
Jean-Michel Ribes
Dental Office Patient
Nathalie Kanoui
Dental Office Patient
Adeline Ishiomin
Dental Office Patient
Lisbeth Arazi Mornet
Dental Office Patient
Francoise Gillard
Shoe Saleslady
Magaly Godenaire
Watch Saleslady
Rosine Cadoret
Cinema Ticket Saleslady
Vincent Rivard
Bartender
Doroth�e Blank
Airline Passenger
Antonin Mineo
Airline Passenger
Emilie Jeauffroy
Airline Passenger
Patrick Mimoun
Jean-Baptiste Larmeur
Isabelle des Courtils
Madame Larmeur
Candice Charles
Elodie Larmeur

Critic Reviews for Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles)

All Critics (81) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (27) | DVD (1)

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

September 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Film.com

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

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What can you say: The French sure know how to make pretty pictures.

July 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic

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Kerry Lengel

Arizona Republic

Top Critic

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.

July 23, 2010 Comment

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

At 88, the legendary French director Alain Resnais has earned the right to make whatever movie he wants, even a smug deconstructionist parlor game like Wild Grass. Thankfully, this doesn't require you to watch it.

July 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Ty Burr

Boston Globe

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Logic-huggers won't like it, but I found Wild Grass a prankish, lyrical and captivating experience.

July 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Wild Grass is carefree and anarchic, takes bold risks, spins in unexpected directions.

July 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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A confounding psychodrama that made me laugh in the scenes that were meant to be serious and remain mute in the scenes that were meant to be amusing.

March 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Resnais is having fun here, possibly at the expense of audiences who demand tradition.

February 24, 2011 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews

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Jeffrey Chen

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

... a delightful reminder of the romantic streak and cinematic whimsy still in this 88-year-old cinema elder.

November 4, 2010 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Director Alain Resnais? roundabout romance about missed connections and misplaced intentions is gorgeous to watch but difficult to track.

October 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune

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Sean Means

Salt Lake Tribune

I recognize the Resnais I love in this movie, poking through here and there, a fumble-fingered god experimenting with his creation: a wobbly, lopsided world warmed by its maker's affection.

September 26, 2010 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Wild Grass is about the randomness of life, and how the meaning behind arbitrary events is incomprehensible and opaque. This also describes what the experience of watching the film is like.

September 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

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Christopher Lloyd

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Wild Grass is the vision of Alain Resnais. He suggests that anything can happen in movies. Or in our imaginations.

August 29, 2010 Full Review Source: tonymacklin.net

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Tony Macklin

tonymacklin.net

Resnais' funky, frothy bonbon of a film is nevertheless a breathtaking sight to see.

August 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Wild Grass is nearly the same movie as Amelie, only minus the charm and the appeal.

August 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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Jeff Vice

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Wild Grass is a mess, and not in a particularly compelling way.

August 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly

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Josh Bell

Las Vegas Weekly Source: Las Vegas Weekly

Camera movements, graphic matches, and strange tonal balances carry a lot of expressive weight in this story about chance encounters, creepy follow-ups, and abrupt changes of heart.

August 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks

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Nick Davis

Nick's Flick Picks

Required viewing only for anybody writing a doctoral thesis on Resnais...

August 13, 2010 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

At age 88, Resnais hasn't lost his capacity to confound.

August 12, 2010 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A fanciful exercise in aesthetic and intellectual masturbation?

August 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

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Jeff Meyers

Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

These are not likable characters, or even ones who seem to have regular contact with Planet Earth.

July 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Washington City Paper

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Tricia Olszewski

Washington City Paper

Resnais is as restlessly, impishly experimental as ever.

July 23, 2010 Full Review Source: DCist

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Ian Buckwalter

DCist

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Audience Reviews for Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles)

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A man haltingly pursues a woman whose wallet he found.If this is the French New Wave, then I should start watching the Old Wave. In Wild Grass there is so little attention paid to good exposition that I found myself lost, wondering about the characters' relationships to each other even after the first act was a

October 10, 2011

Jim Hunter

Super Reviewer

Wild Grass has the most fantastic opening scene. We have this vivid imagery, charming narration, an endearing character, and the introduction to an intriguing plot. Everything seems set up just right to lead to something amazing. Well, the thing is, the film opens on it's highest point. While the rest it good, it just

March 22, 2010

Jake ....

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