Showing at Nenagh Arts Centre as the first screening of the Spring season on Thursday 23rd January, is the film ‘Renoir’ directed by Gilles Bourdos. Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir is portrayed in the final years of his life, grieving for his wife, shaken by his convalescent son’s war-wounds and crippled by arthritis.
He employs a beautiful young model, Andrée, whose presence inspires and rejuvenates both father and son, Jean.
The film is described ‘as a visual feast, colours, light and textures mirroring Renoir’s work and echoing his words:…the pain passes, but beauty remains’.
The film is presented in French with subtitles. Adm is €8 and the film starts at 8 p.m. on Thursday 23rd January.