Detroit Film Theatre
WILD GRASS
Friday, August 06, 2010 – Sunday, August 15, 2010
(France/2009—directed
by Alain Resnais)
On the
fiftieth anniversary of the French New Wave and his groundbreaking debut with Hiroshima Mon Amour, Alain Resnais
delivers a career-crowning masterpiece with Wild
Grass, a delightful roundelay about the fate-altering ripples triggered by
a seemingly ordinary purse snatching. The purse belongs to Marguerite (Sabine
Azéma), a dentist who moonlights as an aviatrix. Its contents are retrieved by
Georges (André Dussollier), a married man who finds himself infatuated with the
purse’s owner, even though he hasn’t met her yet. Add an inept cop (hilariously
played by Mathieu Amalric), some dizzying aerial acrobatics, and breathtaking
widescreen camerawork, and Wild Grass
blossoms into a uniquely playful meditation on coincidence, desire, and the
cinema. Opening Night selection, New York Film Festival. (113 min.)
”Glorious
and generously pleasurable. A love story steeped in kaleidoscopic color and
emotion.” –Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Friday, August 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 7 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 8 at 2:00 p.m.
Friday, August 13 at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 14 at 9:30 p.m.