Gilles Bourdos, Renoir

Could Renoir, a delicate portrait of the great Impressionist painter Auguste Renoir--plus his future filmmaker son Jean and the model they are both entranced by--be the most gorgeous, most beautiful, most glorious movie since Elvira Madigan? That you have to decide for yourself. Writer-director Gilles Bourdos discusses history, light and cinematography, and character in this sit-down for one of the year's cinematic sensations.

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