Greener Grass

Greener Grass feels like an LSD-infused version of Desperate Housewives, minus the mystery, though there are some background murders happening. This deliberately over-the-top and bizarre spectacle lacks a solid story — things just happen, and you watch the strange behavior and interactions of all the characters. It's a big satire on suburban American middle-class life, where the biggest worries are pool size and fashion choices. To enjoy Greener Grass, you need to appreciate its uniquely absurd humor, which mostly missed the mark for me. There were a few moments that genuinely amused me, but it was like one out of ten, which isn't enough for a film like this. A decent attempt that will find its audience and has the potential to become a cult classic, but it's not for me. (2019.11.20)

Bizarre, funny, original, satirical, colourful! Absolutely great film, but not for everyone. The film is unique in its humour - women give each other babies; a baby turns into a dog; a woman sticks a football under her dress and gives birth to it; and the highlight of it all was the haircut with blood coming out of the hair. I highly loved the cinematography and sound effects, which added another dimension to the film. If the viewer takes the film with a grain of salt, they will definitely enjoy it. There is perhaps no greater madness. (2020.09.19)

This is a blatantly funny social satire set in a pastel-coloured world, where all of the adults wear braces (unlike the children, who are treated as property), ride in golf carts, act quite out of the ordinary and conspicuously envy each other’s houses, gardens, swimming pools and offspring. The film does include the story line of one of the heroines who, after a series of bad decisions, tries in vain to break free from all-encompassing conformity, but otherwise it has no plot and consists more of thematically-connected sketches in which various everyday situations and petty bourgeois stereotypes are enriched by unsuspected, absurd and nonsensical points. The result is a surreal show of imaginative episodes, not all of which hit fertile ground, but they are amazingly playful and most of them are hilarious. However, humour is subjective, so it’s entirely possible that you won't like it. (2019.10.13)

Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe present a pastel-colored world in which the central characters are acting like humanoids who are thrown into the modern world with the instructions: "Now act like humans, and live your American dream!" It is an incredibly bizarre satiric movie, in which everyone tries to have the greener grass, cleaner water in the pool, straighter teeth and cuter children. It is very funny and constantly "WTF", however, it seems to be more like a random sequence of episodes in which things were just thrown together at random. It lacks a storyline that holds it all together, as well as a more dramatic ironic ending. However, after a while, I would like to watch this a second time, and maybe I will be able to get my head around it a bit more. [Sitges 2019] (2019.10.26)

Greener Grass is anenchanting film about the position of women in American society and the search for roots. It is a likable journey about one not-entirely-perfect woman from a suburb that is so perfect that no one there expresses surprise at its madness; for example, when someone raises a football like an infant or gives children a snack that has been pre-chewed by real mothers because machines are inhuman. Despite a series of escalating humorous mega-bizarre situations, the heroine tenaciously resists in order not to deviate, which leads to a number of even crazier and more absurd scenes. With its style of humour, Greener Grass approaches Quentin Dupieux’s films cut with the aesthetic of Saturday Night Live, where the white-bread world of the 1950s suburbs meets Lynch smothered in cotton candy discreetly pissed upon by John  Waters. (2019.12.29)