A film of the same name, a biopic of the final days of the celebrated French artist, played in Cannes in 2012, and it wasn’t particularly good – and since then, most of the Cannes movies about ...

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.

For the follow-up to her 2022 'Plan 75,' the Japanese auteur threw out the rule book with 'Renoir,' a film about the magic of childhood that she describes as “making some kind of sculpture out ...