Renoir Reviews
Austin American-Statesman
Renoir really does have the lush glory of a Renoir, and that isn't easy to sustain. Any given freeze frame in this thing is lovely to behold. See Renoir for the glorious light and Theret's strong performance, but don't expect a whole lot of conflict.
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| Original Score: B
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
SSG Syndicate
Sensual, sophisticated and visually sumptuous, particularly appealing to an older audience of art lovers.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top Critic"Renoir" doesn't get much beneath the surface - but, good God, what a surface.
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| Original Score: 3/4
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For those who just want to float away on waves of beauty, "Renoir" is a boating party.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Oregonian
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.
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| Original Score: B-
Groucho Reviews
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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
If you are interested in Renoir, you're better off gazing at his beautiful body of work.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Stately to a fault, the film is not enough drama, too much still life.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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."
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| Original Score: 4/5
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.
Reeling Reviews
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.
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| Original Score: B-
Gilles Bourdos's film is more conventional than its mould-breaking subjects deserve.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Montreal Gazette
Bourdos's film offers an eye-pleasing approximation of the world that inspired Renoir to continue his prodigious output to the very end.
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| Original Score: 3/5
National Post
At least the French art house biopic is rich in ambiance.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The director Gilles Bourdos's sunshiny Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man.
