Wild Grass (2009) on Netflix
Marguerite Muir, a dentist, has her handbag stolen. Georges Palet, an unemployed married man, finds her discarded wallet and hands it in to the police, imagining a romance.
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- Rotten Tomatoes68%
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Plot summary
Marguerite Muir works as a dentist and flies planes in her free time. Her handbag is stolen. Georges Palet, out of work and in his late fifties, married, comes across the wallet she lost and takes it to the police. He pictures it leading to a romance. The police pass his name to Marguerite, and the two get in touch. She is unsure at first. His wife Suzanne, her friend and dental partner Josepha, and the officers Bernard de Bordeaux and Lucien d'Orange become involved. Both of them love aviation.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wild Grass (2009)
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- Alain Resnais adapted Christian Gailly's novel L'Incident for Wild Grass, the first time in his career that he based a film on an existing novel. Gailly gave permission on condition that he would not be involved in preparing the script.
