Wild Grass

An aesthetically liberated film, with intimations of more profound liberations (political, personal). The last few minutes amount to a kind of manifesto, calling for more freedom in today's cinema, more earnest enquiry into the nature, capabilities, and limits of the medium, and most of all condemning the conventional ways of viewing forced upon us by mainstream filmmaking (Hollywood). An playful attack on the received wisdom of the movie watching public. Wild Grass celebrates life springing up, spontaneously and uninvited, in the desert of contemporary western civilization. It's a call for greater diversity in today's corporate monoculture. But first and foremost it's a rich and rewarding experience.

Micmacs

The feature film as Rube Goldberg device has always been Jean-Pierre Jeunet's specialty. In Micmacs we have an underground collective using nonviolent, direct action to topple small arms manufacturers with political connections of the highest order. Why are films like this not made in America?