Greener Grass

Uma sátira social extremamente engraçada, ambientada num mundo de cor pastel onde todos os adultos usam aparelho (ao contrário das crianças, que são tratadas como propriedade), conduzem carrinhos de golfe, agem de forma completamente estranha e têm uma inveja evidente das suas casas, jardins, piscinas e filhos. O filme apresenta a história de uma das heroínas, que, após uma série de más decisões, tenta em vão libertar-se de uma conformidade total, mas de outra forma o filme não tem qualquer enredo e consiste mais em sketches tematicamente ligados, nos quais todo o tipo de situações mundanas e estereótipos de pequenas cidades são enriquecidos por linhas insuspeitas, absurdas e disparatadas. O resultado é um desfile surrealista de episódios imaginativos, nem todos eles acertam o alvo, mas a maioria é muito brincalhona e hilariante. O humor é subjetivo, no entanto, por isso, é claro que pode ser fácil encontrá-lo grosseiramente irritante. (13/10/2019)

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] (26/10/2019)

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. (29/12/2019)

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. (19/09/2020)