Renoir (2013)
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.
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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Michel Bouquet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
Christa Theret
Andrée Heuschling -
Vincent Rottiers
Jean Renoir -
Thomas Doret
Coco Renoir -
Anne-Lise Heimburger
Baker -
Sylviane Goudal
Big Louise -
Emmanuelle Lepoutre
Doctor -
Solène Rigot
Madeleine -
Romane Bohringer
Gabrielle -
Carlo Brandt
Doctor Prat -
Thierry Hancisse
Junk Dealer -
Laurent Poitrenaux
Pierre Renoir -
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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.
Top CriticStately to a fault, the film is not enough drama, too much still life.
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."
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.
Gilles Bourdos's film is more conventional than its mould-breaking subjects deserve.
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.
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.
Lush, captivating.
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.
Sensual, sophisticated and visually sumptuous, particularly appealing to an older audience of art lovers.
"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.
For those who just want to float away on waves of beauty, "Renoir" is a boating party.
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.
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.
If you are interested in Renoir, you're better off gazing at his beautiful body of work.
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.
Bourdos's film offers an eye-pleasing approximation of the world that inspired Renoir to continue his prodigious output to the very end.
At least the French art house biopic is rich in ambiance.
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.
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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.