When I saw Wild Grass last year at a New York Film Festival press screening, I found it mildly enjoyable but too preposterous to like very much. My favorite part of that screening was the Q&A after with director Alain Resnais, a charmingly direct man whose Night and Fog probably shaped my understanding of the Holocaust more than any other single artifact. Then I read some reviews—including one by The House Next Door's own Keith Uhlich—by people who found the movie profoundly meaningful, and after all, this IS Resnais. So when my husband said he wanted to see Wild Grass this weekend I decided to go back and give it a second chance. I actually liked it less the second time around. Only one new thing resonated for me, and that was something Georges (André Dussollier) tells Marguerite (Sabine Azéma) after rewatching a movie he'd loved as a boy. It just didn't do anything for him this time, he says. Continue Reading »