F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous 1925 American novel, set in the sizzling, sexy bacchanal of Jazz Age New York, is now in the cinematic realm of Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann, who turned Paris' Belle ...

There are few moments in life more tumultuous or chaotic in life than the passing of a parent, especially when you're young. This is the situation that young Fuki Okita (Yui Suzuki) must wrestle with ...

Cannes: The "Plan 75" director follows her debut with a cuter but similarly morbid story about a girl making sense of her father's imminent death in 1980s Japan. Her name is Fuki (gifted 11-year-old ...

With 2022’s “Plan 75,” debuting Japanese director Chie Hayakawa explored a delicately dystopian cautionary tale about prizing one’s elders in a famously aging society. Absent that film’s hooky high ...

After averaging four films a day at IFFI, my brain was running on whatever fumes Peoples lager counted as. When the seemingly soft and harmless Renoir floated in unsuspectingly enough for me to ...

Most films labor furiously, trying to infuse every frame with passion. Renoir is content to sit still, creating effortless beauty in the style of its subject, painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A ...

In her debut feature Plan 75, which premiered at Cannes in 2022, Chie Hayakawa offered a quietly disconcerting vision of the future in which Japanese residents over the age of 75 could elect to be ...

EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights for Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa’s Tokyo-set drama Renoir ahead of the project’s presentation. The film is Hayakawa’s second film after ...

This looks like a winner. The first trailer is out already for a Japanese film premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival this May. Renoir is the second feature film from Japanese director Chie ...

Following are Susan Granger's reviews of the latest movies in area theaters On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Great Gatsby" is a sumptuous 7, emphasizing style over substance, filled with ...