{"id":4895,"date":"2010-09-27T00:47:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T04:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2010-09-27T00:47:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T04:47:32","slug":"wild-grass-2009-alain-resnais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4895","title":{"rendered":"Wild Grass (2009, Alain Resnais)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J. Reichert in Reverse Shot described it best: &#8220;The characters&#8217; constant behavioral irrationality makes the first half of <em>Wild Grass<\/em> a frustrating watch, but these rougher waters, in which Resnais schizophrenically navigates through genres (thriller, romance, comedy), eventually calm somewhat and the film enters into a groove where possibilities become expansive and the discontinuity becomes the subject in itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/wildgrass.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the movie, it became definitely better than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/415\">Private Fears<\/a><\/em> and even <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/484\">Not on the Lips<\/a><\/em>.  Maybe it&#8217;s because Resnais deviated from the novel here, allowed improvisation to shape the script, and reportedly based his humor on <em>Curb Your Enthusiasm<\/em>.  It felt a hundred times more free than those previous two movies &#8211; especially over <em>Not on the Lips<\/em>, which felt like it was being performed by ancient ghosts locked in the same performance for eons (hence the fading-out as they walked offstage).  Not sure that I approve of the plane crash idea, and I already know I was paying attention to some of the wrong things so will have to watch it again, but that point halfway through when I realized that the irrationality of the lead characters has spread virus-like into the rest of the movie was my most thrilling moment in theaters this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. Reichert in Reverse Shot described it best: &#8220;The characters&#8217; constant behavioral irrationality makes the first half of Wild Grass a frustrating watch, but these rougher waters, in which Resnais schizophrenically navigates through genres (thriller, romance, comedy), eventually calm somewhat and the film enters into a groove where possibilities become expansive and the discontinuity becomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,10,34],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-alain-resnais","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}