Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa’s second film, Renoir, took me back for a while to Avinash Arun’s Marathi debut feature Killa (Fort, 2014) and Sumanth Bhat’s Kannada language first film Mithya. All ...

Pierre August Renoir, famed impressionist painter and contemporary of Monet, Matisse and Sisley, lived out his last days at Les Collettes, his estate on the French Riviera. It is then and there that ...

In the last years of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s life, his second son, Jean, came home from World War I to convalesce. It was then that the injured lieutenant met Andree Heuschling, the beautiful model ...

“Renoir” draws deeply on Hayakawa’s personal experiences of losing her father during childhood. “I’ve been thinking to make this story since I was a teenager or in my early 20s,” Hayakawa tells ...

The Gilles Bourdos-directed Renoir debuted in Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year where Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired it for the States. It’s been dated for a March 29 release, but before that ...