Les herbes folles 2009

A.O. Scott, At the Movies: Too oblique, too arch. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Ever the pop-culture aesthete, Resnais makes wide-reaching references and allusions: He's acknowledged Curb Your Enthusiasm as a partial influence, and includes an onscreen quote from Gustave Flaubert... Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: 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... Read more

Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: Alain Resnais keeps sprouting marvelous artistic herbage at an age when most of his contemporaries are pushing up grass from a different perspective. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: What initially seemed like charming character eccentricities become more obviously random as the plot begins to zig and zag, as though Resnais were spinning a wheel to determine each scene's direction. Read more

Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: What can you say: The French sure know how to make pretty pictures. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: 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. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: I guess we're supposed to think these two are made for each other but ultimately Georges and Marguerite are filmic conceits. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Octogenarian filmmaker Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad) explores notions of chance, routine, the presentation of self, and the odd stuff that can occur when a man meets a woman, at any age. Read more

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Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A work of playful vigor and youthful wit. Read more

New York Daily News: Many will be transported by its gorgeous construction and breathless emotion. Others will find it patently ridiculous. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Wild Grass is a French movie for people afraid of French movies. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A funny, soulful movie about love and other agonies and is among his finest movies in years. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: 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. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Wild Grass is carefree and anarchic, takes bold risks, spins in unexpected directions. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It exhausts its welcome after 10 minutes and keeps exhausting it for 90 more. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Logic-huggers won't like it, but I found Wild Grass a prankish, lyrical and captivating experience. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: At age 88, Resnais hasn't lost his capacity to confound. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Revered French director Alain Resnais, now nearing 90, proves he still has spring in his step with the irrationally provocative romantic comedy Wild Grass. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: "After the cinema, nothing surprises us," the narrator intones, and this is perhaps the only idea that Resnais wishes to gently leave with us. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: It's cheeky and confident, maybe one of the director's finest, and its loopy final line is the cryptic cherry on this oddball gateau. Read more

Jordan Mintzer, Variety: Alain Resnais continues his career-long experiment in filmmaking with the playfully flamboyant melodrama Wild Grass. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: The 87-year-old filmmaker's latest is an insufferable exercise in cutie-pie modernism, painfully unfunny and precious to a fault. Read more