There aren’t that many filmmakers who would accept an award in white tennis shoes, but when you are part of the 80 plus demographic then anything is allowed. There was talk that the filmmaker would end up with some kind of mention (and from what I heard t wasn’t no sympathy vote) and Rampling and the rest of the jury took this chance to make a moment out of this special occasion.
Based on the novel L’incident by Christian Gailly, Alain Resnais‘ Wild Reeds is about a wallet lost and found opens the door – just a crack – to romantic adventure for Georges
and Marguerite. After examining the ID papers of its owner, it is not a simple matter for Georges to turn the red wallet he found in to the police. Nor is it that Marguerite can recuperate her wallet without being piqued with curiosity about whom it was who found it. As they navigate the social protocols of giving and acknowledging thanks, turbulence enters their otherwise quotidian lives.
