Freudians would have a field day with the film director Jean Renoir. His father, the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, was 53 when Jean was born. Jean grew up surrounded by paintings of ...

“Renoir” is a gorgeously filmed portrait of the artist as an old man. But it’s more than just a look at impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir during his final years painting on the Cote d’ Azur.

Andrée Heuschling (Christa Théret), a full-bodied young woman with a perverse twist to her mouth, enters the estate of the elderly Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet), in 1915, seeking work as a model.

Michel Bouquet as Pierre Auguste Renoir in the 2012 Gilles Bourdos film “Renoir” (Image via Visión del Cine) Pierre Auguste Renoir, that painter of young doughy women, now takes his turn as the ...