Gilles Bourdos
RENOIR
Status: Completed
Director(s): Gilles Bourdos
Main cast: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers
Short synopsis : When a free-spirited young woman enters their world, the lives of great painter Renoir and his future filmmaker son Jean are changed forever.
Long synopsis : The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters his world, the old painter is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation. Back at the family home to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden - and in the face of his father’s fierce opposition - he falls in love with this wild, untameable spirit... and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow.
Cast
- Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret, Romane Bohringer, Michèle Gleizer
Crew
- Producer(s): Olivier Delbosc , Marc Missonnier
- Director(s): Gilles Bourdos
- Screenplay: Gilles Bourdos, Jérôme Tonnerre, Michel Spinosa
- DP: Ping Bin Lee
- Editing: Yannick Kergoat
- Original Music: Alexandre Desplat
- Set Design: Benoît Barouh
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Historical Drama
- Production company: FIDELITE & MARS
- Production date: 2012
- Language: French
- Duration: 111 min
- Image Ratio: 0.00
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Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
We are happy to announce that RENOIR has been selected at Un Certain Regard in Cannes. Congratulations and the best of luck to the filmmaker!
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Winner at the César Awards
RENOIR has won the Best Costume Design Award at the César. Congratulations to the team! *** "An impeccably crafted, tenderly felt traditional period piece." - SCREEN DAILY "Theret's luminous perf, opposite those of vet Bouquet and the equally strong Rottiers, makes clear why the men take an immediate shine to her. Regular d.p. Lee, shooting mostly outdoors, works with shifting flecks of sunlight and color, achieving the live-action equivalent of one of Renoir's impressionist canvases while keeping things grounded in a believable reality. Alexandre Desplat's string-driven score adds a dash of energy that keeps the occasionally lingering images from becoming too pastoral or the pacing too languid. Production and costume designs are also top-drawer. Lushly shot… Well-acted…" - VARIETY
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Successful US release - Samuel Goldwyn Films
Great success in the US! As of Monday 17/06: the combined US & Canada cume was $2,072,090 (Since the beginning of the year, it's the only film with a foreign language (with NO) to reach the symbolic figure of $2M. >> US Release - March 29th - Samuel Goldwyn Films