Gilles Bourdos' stiflingly tasteful slice of blah, Renoir, inspired such confidence in people that it was chosen as France's official submission to the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category, and drew praise from critics for Michel Bouquet's lead performance and Lee Ping Bin's cinematography. Well, fair enough. The Academy likes middle-of-the-road fare like this, and Bouquet and Lee did decent jobs. And that's about it. But it's otherwise a dull and unambitious film, with acting as poor as Bouquet's was impressive (Vincent Rottiers as Jean Renoir is a disaster). It's completely overrated. I was just dying for it to end. Fernando Trueba's similar The Artist and the Model was no masterpiece last year either, but that fictional film thoroughly showed up Bourdos' factual effort.
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