‘Renoir’ Review: Scenes From a 1980s Japanese Girlhood Coalesce Into a Breezy But Moving Drama Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Competition), May 17, 2025. Running time: 118MIN.

“Renoir” is a more diffuse yet in some ways more interesting sophomore feature, that follows where its lovely, mercurial central character leads and, taking a cue from the painter of the ...

With 2022’s “Plan 75,” debuting Japanese director Chie Hayakawa explored a delicately dystopian cautionary tale about prizing one’s elders in a famously aging society. Absent that film’s ...