‘Renoir’ Review: Scenes From a 1980s Japanese Girlhood Coalesce Into a Breezy But Moving Drama

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 concept (a government-backed euthanasia incentive program for seniors aged 75), Hayakawa’s follow-up brings her thoughtful, airy aesthetic to bear on a looser, less structured story, this […]

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