WILD GRASS

A married suburbanite happens upon a lost wallet, and discovers a new side of himself as he becomes fixated on its owner, Marguerite, a dentist and pilot. Soon his curiosity about her and her life becomes an obsession, and their shared love for aviation leads to a fateful flight into the unknown…

Like his early collaborator Chris Marker, the films of Resnais seem perennially young. This giddy, late-career whimsy is an unclassifiable shapeshifter from one of cinema’s greatest inventors. A penetrating look at desire, death, and unrequited love that looks at what grows between the cracks.