2012 · drama · romance
Renoir
Directed by Gilles Bourdos1h 51m2012
In the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir, son of the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste, returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.
Our read: Renoir (2012) reads as a warm, slow-burn, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, slow-burn, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- slow-burn
- gentle
- intimate
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