Wild Grass

Having made the essential Holocaust film Night and Fog and brought the nouveaux romans of Hiroshima mon amour and L'année dernière à Marienbad to the screen, Alain Resnais 's place in film legend is assured and justified. Although his recent autumnal romance, an adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's Private Fears in Public Places , had winsome charm, his latest, Les herbes folles (Wild Grass) is, I'm afraid, a tiresome whimsy. André Dussollier finds a red wallet and begins a flirtatious affair with its owner, a batty aviatrix played by flame-haired Sabine Azema. In accordance with a little-known French film law, Mathieu Amalric also makes an appearance.