It's a fascination that's on full display from the opening moments of "Renoir," and renders the entire film allergic to the cuteness that seeps into so many coming-of-age stories like it.

Renoir primarily follows Fuki, who not only has a very active imagination, but she's a typical curious 5th grader. With her parents somewhat missing from her life, Fuki fills her days learning ...

It's a good thing, then, that the new "Renoir" has nothing to do with the old Renoir. Instead, it's the story of a young girl directed by Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, whose previous Cannes ...

How did a Japanese film Renoir — set in 1980s Tokyo and focused on a young girl’s quiet grief — become a Filipino project?

But where most youth movies deal in the transience of childhood and the personal transformations of this time of upheaval and broadening horizons, "Renoir" whistles a different tune, keeping its ...

It’s a fascination that’s on full display from the opening moments of “Renoir,” and renders the entire film allergic to the cuteness that seeps into so many coming-of-age stories like it.

In 'Renoir,' director Chie Hayakawa tells a deeply personal and poetic story about a transformative summer in the life of an 11 year-old-girl. 'Renoir' Review: Delicate, Tokyo-Set Meditation on ...

Premiering in competition at Cannes, Renoir is a poetic meditation on a crucial summer in the life of 11-year-old Fuki (a gorgeous turn by newcomer Yui Suzuki) as she navigates her father's battle ...

In fact, the film undercuts the very idea of a coming-of-age movie in its first sequence, in which its main character, an 11-year-old girl who attends a fifth grade in a school in the suburbs ...