In 'Renoir,' director Chie Hayakawa tells a deeply personal and poetic story about a transformative summer in the life of an 11 year-old-girl.

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the ...

Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, whose “Plan 75” earned a Camera d’Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival, is back on the Croisette with competition title “Renoir,” a ...

Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, whose “Plan 75” earned a Camera d’Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival, is back on the Croisette with competition title “Renoir,” a ...

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa’s second film, Renoir, took me back for a while to Avinash Arun’s Marathi debut ...

Strong performances drive Japanese director’s Hayakawa Chie's touching and haunting sophomore effort, which premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival ...

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 ...

That information is only glancingly alluded to in Chie Hayakawa’s “Renoir,” a diaphanous coming-of-age story that’s only clouded by the burden of unbecoming (no surprise to anyone familiar ...

Cannes 2025: You could call Chie Hayakawa’s understated second feature a coming-of-age film, except that its lead character doesn’t really learn anything ...