Premiering in competition at Cannes, Renoir is a poetic meditation on a ... Fuki’s teacher meets with her mother to ask if the young girl is alright. In many ways, Fuki isn’t.

There are moments toward the end when Renoir takes sentimental turns that ... Fuki’s teacher meets with her mother to ask if the young girl is alright. In many ways, Fuki isn’t.

Premiering in competition at Cannes, Renoir is a poetic meditation on a crucial summer ... A few scenes after this, Fuki’s teacher meets with her mother to ask if the young girl is alright. In many ...

The "Plan 75" director follows her debut with a cuter but similarly morbid story about a girl confronting her father's ...

In the midst of a society that, as we are told by one of the characters in Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir, is characterized by diligence and modesty, young Fuki Okita (Yui Suzuki) is living on instinct and ...

She believes she does because, as a girl with one foot still in childhood ... Keiji once bought Fuki a print of Auguste Renoir’s portrait of a child called Irene. The director’s father ...

But “Renoir” — with its faint traces of sentiment, and complete absence of sentimentality — delicately articulates the girl’s inner child in a way that allows us to feel it expand across ...