Renoir
Directed by
Chie Hayakawa
Library Pricing:
DVD $150.00
Blu-ray $150.00
PPR $350.00
DRL $499.00
PPR+DRL $599.00
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Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world…
Cast
- Yui Suzuki
- Lily Franky
- Hikari Ishida
- Ayumu Nakajima
- Yuumi Kawai
- Ryota Bando
- "Chie Hayakawa's Renoir is a beautiful film, a quiet and measured exploration of grief, family, and the ties that bind us together."
- "Renoir rewards patience with fragmented narratives and surrealist touches. Part of the reason Renoir, despite its modesty, hits emotionally is because of Suzuki’s compelling performance. The newcomer has a wide-eyed, penetrating stare that at once communicates the reality of Fuki’s innocence and the depth of her curiosity."
- "[A]n elegant, thoughtful piece of filmmaking that digs into the guilt and confusion that underpins a child’s struggle to process death."
- "Renoir is a coming-of-age story that will be familiar to fans of Hirokazu Kore-eda, but there’s little (if any) of his sentimentality here. Hayakawa’s gaze is as consistent as it is observant, presenting the joys and perils of a formative summer in equal light. The result is a rich and gradually rewarding bildungsroman...."
- "Yui Suzuki leads the film effortlessly, she delivers a quietly powerful performance that the audience cares about deeply."
- "Similar to Yasujirō Ozu—Hayakawa often utilizes the same type of classical framing employed by the old master—this is a film that steps to a delicate rhythm whose echo isn’t heard until the very end."
- "It’s a tender, loose and slightly whimsical tale."
- "Hayakawa draws from her personal experiences to craft a deliberately paced, nostalgic story that warmly touches upon universal themes of grief, childhood imagination, and the bonds of family from this life and beyond."
- "[S]weetly reticent.... What distinguishes Hayakawa’s approach is a principled refusal of the obvious; she doesn’t strain to make Fuki relatable, or diagnose her, or problematize her occasional flights of fantasy."
- "Renoir... has the power to touch and then to haunt us."
- "“Renoir” — with its faint traces of sentiment, and complete absence of sentimentality — delicately articulates the girl’s inner child in a way that allows us to feel it expand across the season."
- "Yui Suzuki communicates the wide range of Fuki’s life, Yui’s energy and charm powering the film. Hayakawa’s honest, at times appropriately unsettling, inclusion of liberty and danger, risk and safety, depicts universal childhood in an authentic manner that invites the audience to recall vivid memories as a complement to Fuki’s experiences."
- "With a soft charm, soothing, intelligent and mesmerising, it demonstrates with great yet non-ostentation mastery all the potential of its director."
- ""Renoir" glows with a youthful beauty and light."
- "Renoir is a quiet and tender exploration of the shape-shifting nature of grief, and a child’s bottomless repertoire of ways to navigate it."
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Awards & Recognition
Nominated
Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival
Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection
Shanghai Int'l. Film Festival
Shanghai Int'l. Film Festival