Wild Grass (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

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From left, Mathieu Amalric, André Dussollier and Michel Vuillermoz in “Wild Grass.”
Anarchic Imagination vs. Humdrum
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: June 25, 2010

As the camera glides and loop-de-loops through the 88-year-old Alain Resnais’s surreal romantic comedy “Wild Grass,” primary colors take on a luminescent glow. Objects — a yellow car, a red dress, a blue doorway, even traffic lights — assume the heightened visual intensity of symbols in a waking dream. More