Note: this is not some casting news headline from a couple of years back. Wild Grass featured ensemble of André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Mathieu Amalric and Anne Consigny are joining Alain Resnais’ next feature, which will begin lensing in January of next year. Also joining the cast of Vous N’avez Encore Rien Vu, we have Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Nanty and trio Pierre Arditi, Lambert Wilson and Claude Rich who all appeared in Resnais’ 2006 film Private Fears in Public Places. Filming begins in January and will last for.
Gist: Co-written by Resnais and Laurent Herbiet, this is adapted from Jean Anouilh’s stage play Eurydice, where a violinist Orphée and touring actress Eurydice leave everything behind to fulfill their love. But jealousy takes hold of Orphée.
Worth Noting: For a French filmmaker who has made very little amount of films, he sure if cranking them out in the late stages of his career.
Do We Care?: Our own David Anderson described the Wild Grass experiment “while we may not fully agree with his ultimate methodology, Resnais has created a mesmerizing field guide to the symbiotic relationship of cinema, dreams and human consciousness“. In his old age, this master filmmaker is still giving us cinematic food for thought.
