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Renoir (2013)

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Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 8

Appropriately enough, Renoir offers viewers a drama of sumptuous beauty -- which is more than enough to offset its frustratingly slow pace and rather thinly written screenplay.

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 5

Appropriately enough, Renoir offers viewers a drama of sumptuous beauty -- which is more than enough to offset its frustratingly slow pace and rather thinly written screenplay.

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Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos' lushly atmospheric drama RENOIR tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his middle son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. The elder Renoir is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy when a young girl miraculously enters his world. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the

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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (8)

"Renoir" doesn't get much beneath the surface - but, good God, what a surface.

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Boston Globe
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Stately to a fault, the film is not enough drama, too much still life.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
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One would expect a film about French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir to look beautiful, to be shot in warm, sumptuous colors. And one would not be disappointed in Gilles Bourdos' "Renoir."

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic
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If you love the paintings of Auguste Renoir or the films of his son Jean, there's a good chance you'll sit through this slow-moving prestige item.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Gilles Bourdos's film is more conventional than its mould-breaking subjects deserve.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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As sensually beautiful as the work of its subject matter, French filmmaker Gilles Bourdos's dreamy biography Renoir is more a series of tableaux than a narrative film.

April 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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You will undoubtedly see better movies than Gilles Bourdos' Renoir this year, but there's a good chance you won't see a more breathtakingly gorgeous one.

May 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Lush, captivating.

May 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Boston Herald
Boston Herald

It's that eye-popping surface that is the real star of "Renoir," although the film is an agreeable if shallow look at the great artist in the twilight of his years.

May 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Sensual, sophisticated and visually sumptuous, particularly appealing to an older audience of art lovers.

May 3, 2013 Full Review Source: SSG Syndicate
SSG Syndicate

"Renoir" is a story of creativity in twilight, and at its dawning. Appropriately enough, most of its scenes are fit to be framed, all soft tones and sun-dappled.

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

For those who just want to float away on waves of beauty, "Renoir" is a boating party.

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Philosophy and analysis can wait for another day; it's pleasant enough to quietly revel in the pristine sunlight and unhurried pace of an era gone by.

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Oregonian
Oregonian

Perhaps it's damning Renoir with faint praise to call it agreeable, but Gilles Bourdos' film...shows an admirable restraint, quiet simplicity, and lush pictorial beauty.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews
Groucho Reviews

If you are interested in Renoir, you're better off gazing at his beautiful body of work.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Bourdos hired art forger Guy Ribes to be the 'hands' of the painter, and so "Renoir" is a real look at art being created, showing us how nudes can be conjured out of a few rounded lines, how a stroke of brown paint defines a woman's curves.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews
Reeling Reviews

Bourdos's film offers an eye-pleasing approximation of the world that inspired Renoir to continue his prodigious output to the very end.

April 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Montreal Gazette
Montreal Gazette

At least the French art house biopic is rich in ambiance.

April 11, 2013 Full Review Source: National Post
National Post

Accompanying the spirited muse of two Renoirs, a gorgeous immersion into nature, family, love, and art in the Côte d'Azur during the summer of 1915.

April 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com
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Audience Reviews for Renoir

In 1915, Andree Heuschling(Christa Theret) takes a job as a model for famed painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir(Michel Bouquet). Instead of giving the old man a heart attack, his painting thrives again. Just as Andree considers herself a jack of all arts, Renoir's pre-teen son Claude(Thomas Doret) misunderstands, asking to see her breasts to which she flatly declines. As a consolation prize, he does get to see his brother Jean's(Vincent Rottiers) wound when he comes back from the war.

It is one thing to be told Jean Renoir's father was a great painter; it is another to see their relationship dramatized in the engaging biopic "Renoir" which also allows us to trace the father's influence on the son. That especially includes the bucolic scenes the father took great enjoyment in capturing for all eternity on his canvas in his own long gone oasis that we first glimpse as Andree effortlessly glides on her bicycle in orange. With mortality just lurking beneath the surface, this is also a time of transition, not only about generations, but also involving technology. The only significant problem with the movie is that it is too long, forcing a traditional narrative arc, instead of letting the material unfurl naturally.
April 8, 2013
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I am no fan of Renoir the painter, especially of his earlier jolly figures, (although I very much like Renoir the film maker, his son). Yet, I was surprised by how much I liked this film about father and son and their muse. It is a slow moving, quiet and visually stunning film. The cinematography is outstanding. A sensuously vivid experience. a final treat, Renoir's paintings shown in the film were made by an expert forger right out of prison, I believe.
May 5, 2013
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