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Wild Grass
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“The 17-day festival gets off to a glorious start on Friday with “Wild Grass,” the latest from Alain Resnais….a later-life love story steeped in kaleidoscopic color and emotion….A disquisition could be written on Mr. Resnais’s use of red (stop), yellow (warning) and green (go), colors that speak to the characters’ vertiginous states of mind. Another chapter would have to be reserved for blue.” - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"Wild Grass" shows that although Resnais has grown more light-hearted in old age, he hasn't lost his desire to challenge the viewer on all levels.” - Variety
“The ultimate Resnais film.” –The Auteurs
Lifetime achievement award for his work and exceptional contribution to the history of cinema, Cannes 2009.
OPENING NIGHT
Wild Grass / Les herbes folles
Alain Resnais, 2009, France, 104m
As avant-garde as ever 50 years after making his debut with the landmark Hiroshima Mon Amour, director Alain Resnais delivers a career-crowning masterpiece with this delightful roundelay, based on Christian Gailly’s novel The Incident, about the fate-altering ripples triggered by a seemingly ordinary purse snatching. The purse belongs to Marguerite (Resnais regular Sabine Azéma), a dentist who moonlights as an aviatrix. Its contents are retrieved by Georges (André Dussollier), a married man who soon finds himself infatuated with the purse’s owner, even though he hasn’t actually met her yet. Add in a couple of keystone cops (hilariously played by Mathieu Amalric and Michel Vuillermoz), some dizzying aerial acrobatics, and the glorious widescreen camerawork of cinematographer Eric Gautier and you have the recipe for a uniquely playful meditation on coincidence and desire that suggests Resnais, at age 87, is truly in his prime. A Sony Pictures Classics release.
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