After filming screenplays by such writers as Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Jorge Semprun, Resnais brings a novel to the screen for the first time with this tale of a man and a woman thrown together by coincidence. Wild Grass joins Last Year at Marienbad, Muriel and Resnais’ Alan Ayckbourn adaptations in his canon of works about ambiguous relationships whose status and whose very existence seems to oscillate before our eyes, as the film blends comedy, romance and thriller. The mute presence of a movie theater and the eruption on the soundtrack of the 20th Century Fox fanfare remind us of Resnais’ belief in cinema as the perfect medium for what Proust called “the heart’s intermittences.”