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.

| Jul 30, 2018

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

| Sep 21, 2010

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

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2010

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

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2010

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2010

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 23, 2010

Every image is an artistic gem, and like a great expressionistic painter Resnais leaves nothing on the table as his vivid imagination runs gloriously wild.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2010

Along with such fantasy elements as rich, primary colors and an ending that suggests we've jumped to some other cinematic dimension, Wild Grass, like compulsive filmmaking, embraces the intensity of subjective experience...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 15, 2010

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2010

Technically facile grope at dark romance.

Full Review | Jul 9, 2010

Revered French director Alain Resnais, now nearing 90, proves he still has spring in his step with the irrationally provocative romantic comedy Wild Grass.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2010

It exhausts its welcome after 10 minutes and keeps exhausting it for 90 more.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 8, 2010

"After the cinema, nothing surprises us," the narrator intones, and this is perhaps the only idea that Resnais wishes to gently leave with us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 8, 2010

At first it isn't clear whether the film that unfolds is a thriller, romance, or mystery. As it happens, it is all of the above.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 8, 2010

I guess we're supposed to think these two are made for each other but ultimately Georges and Marguerite are filmic conceits.

| Jul 2, 2010

I found its high comedy very potent.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2010

Too oblique, too arch.

Full Review | Jun 28, 2010

Many will be transported by its gorgeous construction and breathless emotion. Others will find it patently ridiculous.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 25, 2010

A tiresome whimsy.

| Jun 25, 2010