“Renoir” Director Gilles Bourdos
French director, Gilles Bourdos, shared with the sophisticated Film Society of Lincoln Center audience attending the Rendez-vous with French Cinema film, “Renoir” on Saturday night, that while walking around the Metropolitan Museum of Art and getting lost one day, he found himself in the room where the French impressionist paintings are kept. He came across Renoir’s paintings, and felt he had an obligation as a Frenchman to tell Renoir’s story. ”It was either Cezanne or Renoir, and I chose Pierre-Auguste Renoir.”
Absolutely beautiful cinematography, as each scene and lighting was set up so precisely in a protected area in a National Park near St. Tropez on the Cote d’Azur. As it is a time period piece from 1915 to 1919, Gilles explained that it was difficult not to get a light bulb or a boat in the shot.”
“There are many disagreeable things in life, I don’t need to create more poverty, despair, or tragedy. Flesh is all that matters. If you understand flesh, you understand life.”~Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Article and Videography by Sharon Abella
