Gilles Bourdos’ Renoir is filmed as if you are living in Renoir’s Cagnes-sur-Mer, now a suburb of Nice, in the summer of 1915. Though Renoir was seriously ailing with rheumatoid arthritis and could scarcely hold a brush, among his pleasures was painting alfresco.
Sometimes Renoir was carried to a favorite stream where he sat on the stony shore, a picnic basket within easy reach. Gilles Bourdos’ Renoir.
Sometimes he was carried to a favorite stream where he sat on the stony shore, a picnic basket within easy reach. See: Gilles Bourdos. Renoir (2012). Screenplay by Gilles Bourdos, Jerome Tonnerre, and Michel Spinosa based on Jacques Renoir’s Le Table Amoureux (2003), published in the U.S. as Renoir: An Intimate Biography (2017)