The painter's son who became cinema's greatest humanist — and almost didn't survive Hitler.
Direction
Thompson lets Renoir's own words breathe — no talking heads overload.
Production
Rare archive footage of Auguste painting, father-son genius colliding.
Director
David M. Thompson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Renoir kept filming during the Nazi occupation until a Resistance bomb nearly killed him — he finished the documentary's second half in Hollywood, literally rebuilding his life.
Peter Bogdanovich's interviews here were shot during his own '90s comeback drought, making his reverence for Renoir's resilience feel almost confessional.
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