“Renoir” is a gorgeously filmed portrait of the artist as an old man. But it’s more than just a look at impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir during his final years painting on the Cote d’ Azur.
Andrée Heuschling (Christa Théret), a full-bodied young woman with a perverse twist to her mouth, enters the estate of the elderly Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet), in 1915, seeking work as a model.