“Renoir” (2025), directed by Chie Hayakawa, will be shown from Friday, June 5, to Thursday, June 11, at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles.
Showtimes: 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m.
Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative 11-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift – her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter.
Fuki responds to the situation not with tears but with placid curiosity about the prospect of death – becoming fascinated by the occult and experimenting with hypnotism. As the summer passes, Fuki encounters a string of lonely, imperfect adults, all of whom nudge her closer to an emotional truth she isn’t quite ready to name yet.
The cast includes Yui Suzuki, Lily Franky and Hikari Ishida.
At the 2025 QCinema International Film Festival, Hayakawa won the Pylon Award for best picture and best director and Suzuki was honored for best lead performance. At the 2025 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Hayakawa won for best screenplay and Suzuki was named best new performer.
Info/tickets: (310) 473-8530, www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/327943-renoir/