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Issue: Spring 2013
Renoir (2012) movie review
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Renoir is a sensitive character study about the dying of one artist and the birth of the career of another.
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. Renoir senior is wracked with pain. His life is supported by a group of women who tend him from bathing him and treating his arthritic hands to feeding him, putting him to bed, and carrying him through the grounds to his studio.
Movie poster, Renoir
The film begins with the arrival of the beautiful young Andrée Heuschling who wishes to model for Renoir, and to be an actress, a dancer, a performer of some kind. She inspires the ageing painter to create his final paintings. Meanwhile young Jean Renoir is also struggling against infirmity. As he heals he becomes involved with Andrée who encourages his interesting in moving pictures and sees a promise from him that he will make pictures and she will act in them.
The two men, one at the end of his life and career, and the other at the tenuous beginning of his, enjoy their red-headed muse in the beautiful countryside that has such death and destruction outside its walls.
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by Ali Kayn |
Just the facts:Title: Renoir (2012) The Players: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers Official website: IMDb entry For session times of current films, use the cinema listings on the Movie links page. For scheduled release dates, see the coming attractions section. For more information about this movie, check out the internet movie database. |
Published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
Filed: 12-Oct-2013