'Renoir' Review: Quiet Japanese Drama Looks at Death Through a Young Girl's Eyes

The announcement that a film called "Renoir" would be screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival was not necessarily cause for rejoicing among those who don't look beyond the titles of the selected films. A film of the same name, a biopic of the final days of the celebrated French artist, played in Cannes in 2012, and it wasn't particularly good – and since then, most of the Cannes movies about famous European artists (it's a veritable genre on the Croisette) have been underwhelming at best. It's a good thing, then, that the new "Renoir" has nothing to do with the old . . .