Renoir (Version française)

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1915. Sur la Cte d'Azur. Au crpuscule de sa vie, Auguste Renoir est prouv par la perte de son pouse, les douleurs du grand ge, et les mauvaises nouvelles venues du front : son fils Jean est bless... Mais une jeune fille, Andre, apparue dans sa vie comme un miracle, va insuffler au vieil homme une nergie qu'il n'attendait plus. clatante de vitalit, rayonnante de beaut, Andre sera le dernier modle du peintre, sa source de jouvence. Lorsque Jean, revenu bless de la guerre, vient passer sa convalescence dans la maison familiale, il dcouvre son tour, fascin, celle qui est devenue l'astre roux de la galaxie Renoir. Et dans cet den Mditerranen, Jean, malgr l'opposition ronchonne du vieux peintre, va aimer celle qui, anime par une volont dsordonne, insaisissable, fera de lui, jeune officier vellitaire et bancal, un apprenti cinaste...Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, this lushly atmospheric drama tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son Jean, who returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. When Andre, a free-spirited, beautiful young red-head enters their lives, they are both smitten. The elder Renoir, in declining health at age 74 and tormented by the loss of his wife, is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy as Andre becomes his last muse and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation. In the face of his fathers fierce opposition, Jean too falls under Andres spell, and his transformation from a battle-weary son to a budding filmmaker, begins.

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