WILD GRASS

**Ends Thursday, August 26th**

"WOW! The most unexpected, out-of-the-blue surprise." - Diana Carson, ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH

"Psychodrama, sex farce, tragedy, comedy: Alain Resnais' masterpiece is all of these things and more." - Keith Uhlich, TIME OUT NEW YORK

"A constant, confounding delight ... you should see the movie." - Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE

"A lucid, luxuriant dream." - Scott Foundas, LA WEEKLY

"Sublime." - Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

From legendary French filmmaker ALAIN RESNAIS (Last Year at Marienbad) comes an imaginative, hypnotic and hugely entertaining story of unrequited love, proving that this master of world cinema, 50 years after the release of his groundbreaking classic Hiroshima mon amour, is still dedicated to experimentation, imagination and wild games of chance.
WILD GRASS, based on the novel L’Incident by Christian Gailly and titled after those stubborn weeds that erupt from cracks in the pavement, is an ode to uncontrolled impulse and the possibilities—effervescent or ominous, sublime or absurd—that arise from accident. The triggering incident is fairly ordinary: A woman goes out shopping for shoes and has her purse snatched; a man goes out to buy a watch battery and stumbles upon the woman’s red wallet. Out of these chinks in everyday routine grow a tangle of unruly emotions, as the man, Georges (André Dussollier, AMELIE), develops an inexplicable obsession with the woman, Marguerite (Sabine Azéma, NOT ON THE LIPS), a dentist and amateur aviatrix. Is Georges a melancholy romantic, an aging husband in the throes of some ongoing midlife crisis or a dangerous psychotic? Is Marguerite, with her staring eyes and blaze of scarlet hair, an endearing eccentric or has she entirely taken leave of her senses? Is WILD GRASS a thriller, a screwball comedy or a love story? With false starts and false endings, sudden shifts of palette and a mood-swinging score, Resnais plays it as all three, and as something else entirely. As the weirdly omniscient narrator reminds us, “After the cinema, nothing surprises you. Anything can happen.”

VISIT THE OFFICIAL MOVIE WEBSITE:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/wildgrass/

Read the New York Times' piece on Alain Resnais and his WILD GRASS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/movies/20dargis.html