There are few moments in life more tumultuous or chaotic in life than the passing of a parent, especially when you're young. This is the situation that young Fuki Okita (Yui Suzuki) must wrestle with ...

Director Gilles Bourdos takes an appreciative look at Andree Heuschling's impact on the lives of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son Jean. By Todd McCarthy The story of the young woman who was ...

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 ...

Cannes: The "Plan 75" director follows her debut with a cuter but similarly morbid story about a girl making sense of her father's imminent death in 1980s Japan. Her name is Fuki (gifted 11-year-old ...

After averaging four films a day at IFFI, my brain was running on whatever fumes Peoples lager counted as. When the seemingly soft and harmless Renoir floated in unsuspectingly enough for me to ...

Film Movement has secured North American distribution rights to “Renoir,” the sophomore feature from Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa that unspooled in competition at Cannes this year. The ...

Doha Film Festival has selected five titles for the international feature film competition at its inaugural edition, including Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir. The films will play as part of the festival from ...

EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights for Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa’s Tokyo-set drama Renoir ahead of the project’s presentation. The film is Hayakawa’s second film after ...