“Renoir” is a lush, involving film that deals not with one Renoir but two, as well as the strong-minded woman who was a key player in both their lives. The year is 1915, the setting the gorgeous ...

Watching “Renoir,” the new film about the great painter, is a lot like — wait for it — watching paint dry. The French film does have a few things on its side. Shot on the estate of painter ...

While I highly recommend the new French movie Renoir, I feel obligated to caution that my recommendation might not apply to all Movie Geeks. The most action-packed scene in this movie involves a ...

The world of cinema mourned when Jean Renoir died in Beverly Hills in 1979 at the age of 84. One of the most influential directors of the 20th century, noted for such masterpieces as 1937’s “Grand ...

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There would appear to be nothing promising in a film that takes place when Renoir is creating his late nudes on the sunny French Riviera: They are kitsch for repressed pervs. Renoir is one of the most ...

The shock of the nude and the shock of the new bring much-needed vitality to “Renoir,” a voluptuous, under-dramatized account of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s heroic final phase. Set entirely on the French ...

In director Gilles Bourdos' biopic Renoir, Christa Theret plays Andree Heuschling, who served as a muse for both the aging Impressionist master and his young filmmaker son. The French painter Renoir, ...

The line sounds absurdly melodramatic, but it’s delivered in a steely tone. “You’ll end up in the old man’s bed. Like my mother. Like all of them.” Played by a taciturn Thomas Doret, the younger son ...

“I refuse to paint the world black,” declares Pierre-Auguste Renoir (the great French actor Michel Bouquet) in “Renoir,” Gilles Bourdos’s compassionate late-life portrait of this French Impressionist ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge will seek to unravel an art mystery and determine the rightful owner of a napkin-sized painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir that a Virginia woman ...