Original Article on DCist

The latest cinematic puzzle-box from French director Alain Resnais shows the director -- now, at 87, rather staggeringly in his 7th decade of making movies -- still more than capable of creating films that are, at once, thought-provoking, engaging and thoroughly befuddling. Wild Grass is the first literary adaptation in that long career, taken from the novel L'Incident by Christian Gailly. Resnais seems intent on keeping the story's literary underpinnings intact, and does so through the constant use of narrations, both from a third person narrator and internal monologues from the characters themselves. As a device, it should distance these characters from us, but the fact is that, as is often the case with Resnais, these people live in such...(read more)