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Wild Grass

Play trailer Poster for Wild Grass PG,  2010,  1h 44m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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68% Tomatometer 91 Reviews 37% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
Georges Palet comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir 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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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 Jul 30, 2018
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. Go to Full Review
Jonathan F. Richards Film.com Sep 21, 2010
Alain Resnais keeps sprouting marvelous artistic herbage at an age when most of his contemporaries are pushing up grass from a different perspective. Go to Full Review
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Aug 20, 2010
2.5/5
Resnais' funky, frothy bonbon of a film is nevertheless a breathtaking sight to see. Go to Full Review
Stuart Klawans The Nation Sep 24, 2026
The work of an 87-year-old who has enjoyed a rich life making films, and has enriched the world immeasurably by making film history. Go to Full Review
Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) Aug 10, 2022
Wild Grass is more than a movie, it's an act of prestigitatation. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 27, 2020
3.5/4.0
Dussollier and Azema are a joy. Go to Full Review
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Leia R Jul 23, 2018 The most infuriating film I have ever seen
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Alain Resnais

Director

Sabine Azéma

Marguerite Muir

André Dussollier

Georges Palet

Anne Consigny

Suzanne Palet

Emmanuelle Devos

Josepha

Mathieu Amalric

Bernard de Bordeaux

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Synopsis Georges Palet comes across a woman's wallet and turns it over to the authorities. Informed that the missing item has been located, Marguerite Muir 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
F Comme Film, StudioCanal, France 2 Cinéma, BIM Distribuzione
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)
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