RENOIR IN SOUTH AFRICA

Product Description A flame-haired teenager captivates the lives of the famous painter andhis young son, in director Gilles Bourdos's visually evocative drama.After arriving at the house of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet)in the summer of 1915, vibrant and ambitious 15-year-old redhead AndreHeuschling (Christa Theret), soon becomes a muse to the aged andarthritic painter, inspiring a new lease of life in his twilight years.But the realities of the First World War intrude on the idyllic Coted'Azur setting with the sudden arrival home of Renoir's son Jean(Vincent Rottiers), an officer in the French army, to convalesce afterbeing wounded in action. As the complex relationship between father andson gradually unfolds, an aimless Jean soon finds himself fallinghelplessly under Andre's spell.