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Wild Grass (2008)

Wild Grass (2008)
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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 Azéma) 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 (André Dussollier), a seemingly happy man with a wife, Suzanne (Anne Consigny), and two children (Vladimir Consigny and Sara Forestier). 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. Georges' attempts to integrate himself into Marguerite's life begin to alarm her, and she hires a private security team (Mathieu Amalric and Michel Vuillermoz) to keep him away, but Georges is determined that his new love for her will not be denied. Les Herbes Folles (aka Wild Grass) received its world premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Starring:
Sabine AzémaAndré Dussollier, (more)
Director(s):
Alain Resnais
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG
Format(s):
DVD
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Synopsis of Wild Grass

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 Azéma) 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 (André Dussollier), a seemingly happy man with a wife, Suzanne (Anne Consigny), and two children (Vladimir Consigny and Sara Forestier). 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. Georges' attempts to integrate himself into Marguerite's life begin to alarm her, and she hires a private security team (Mathieu Amalric and Michel Vuillermoz) to keep him away, but Georges is determined that his new love for her will not be denied. Les Herbes Folles (aka Wild Grass) received its world premiere at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
104 mins

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Director(s):
Alain Resnais
Writer(s):
Laurent HerbietAlex Réval
Producer(s):
Jean-Louis Livi
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG
Categories:
ForeignDrama
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    Nancy L.

    Strange and somewhat slow moving plot, *weird* ending and a total waste of time. There are so many better choices out there in foreign film-land!

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    Karl B.

    The most mind numbingly slow movie ever made. The characters are pasted up fragments of some Gallic fantasy. This is a cartoon laminated in plastic to make it look like art. Don't waste your time.

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    Donald O.

    Watched this because Roger Ebert liked it. Ebert didn't spend much time on the ending of the film. Without giving away too much, there seemed to be two or three endings, none of which made all that much sense. I guess what made the film enjoyable, wasn't how it ended, but how it tied unlikely events together.

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