Renoir (film)

Renoir is a 2012 French drama film based on the last years of Renoir at CagnessurMer during World War I. The film was directed by Gilles Bourdos and competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Renoir achieved critical and commercial success both in France and abroad, most notably in the United States where it is on the Critics Pick list of The New York Times The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. In January 2014, the film received four nominations at the 39th Csar Awards, winning for Best Costume Design.

Director Gilles Bourdos used the services of a convicted art forger, Guy Ribes, to create and recreate the Renoir paintings in live action on screen.The film received generally favorable reviews from critics. The filmcritics aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported 72 of critics gave the film a positive review based on 60 reviews, with an average score of 6.610. The critical consensus is Appropriately enough, Renoir offers viewers a drama of sumptuous beautywhich is more than enough to offset its frustratingly slow pace and rather thinly written screenplay. Metacritic, which assigns a standardized score out of 100, rated the film 64 based onreviews. ........

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