Renoir (2012)
Vincent Rottiers: Jean Renoir
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Quotes
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You want to make yourself useful? Go put a necklace on her. Take the emerald one.
Jean Renoir : [approaches a posing Andree] The boss wants you to wear this.
Andrée Heuschling : No introduction first?
Jean Renoir : Forgive me.
Andrée Heuschling : You're Jean? I saw a painting of you.
Jean Renoir : I saw a painting of you, too.
Andrée Heuschling : He always makes me too fat.
Jean Renoir : He makes me look like a girl.
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[takes a fruit from a bowl in the studio and bites into it]
Jean Renoir : You just bit into one of my father's models. I understand. Renoir's paintings make me want to eat them too.
Andrée Heuschling : You want to eat me?
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Jean Renoir : If you told me what you wanted...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : You can't explain a painting, you have to feel it. Go see Titian's courtesans at the Louvre. If those don't make you want to caress them, then you've understood nothing at all.
[Jean leaves]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Where are you going?
Jean Renoir : To the Louvre!
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : She won't come anymore, will she? Were you a gentleman with her?
Jean Renoir : Did I need your permission?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : All women, whether they be a whore or a queen, deserve the same respect.
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Coco Renoir : What's the war like?
Jean Renoir : It's war...
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Andrée Heuschling : Jean, promise me.
Jean Renoir : What?
Andrée Heuschling : When the war is over, we'll make movies.
Jean Renoir : That's your dream.
Andrée Heuschling : No. The two of us, together. I'm not spending my life with a plate painter.
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Pierre Renoir : Andree said you were going to make films?
Jean Renoir : No. Nothing's been decided.
Pierre Renoir : That reassures me. The cinema isn't for us French. It's entertainment for the masses. Our artistic heritage is too old, too heavy.
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Jean Renoir : [his father has suffered the torments of arthritis in his hands] Papa. You can't take any more.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : The pain passes, Jean. But beauty remains.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Change positions. - - Not like that.
Andrée Heuschling : Like what then?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Floating! Courbet.
Jean Renoir : I see.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : "Les Demoiselles" Floating. Hanging in the landscape.
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Jean Renoir : You paint faster than ever.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : My whole life, I got tangled up in complications. Today I simplify matters.
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Andrée Heuschling : You have to know who you are.
Jean Renoir : Hmm. And you? Who are you?
Andrée Heuschling : I am what I am.
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Andrée Heuschling : What are your ambitions? What are your dreams?
Jean Renoir : I don't know. No. No dreams. No ambitions.
Andrée Heuschling : Never say that to a woman you love. She'll despise you. Believe me.
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Andrée Heuschling : Why not be an artist like your dad?
Jean Renoir : My dad doesn't see himself like that. He thinks of himself as a worker.
Andrée Heuschling : Hmm. A worker everyone calls "Boss."
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Jean Renoir : You've painted everything.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : I still have progress to make. I'll carry on till I collapse.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir : The Renoirs refuse to paint the world black. A painting should be something pleasant and cheerful. There are enough disagreeable things in life. I don't need to create more. Poverty, despair, death. They're not my concern.
Jean Renoir : And the war?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir : That either. Tragedy. Others play it very well.
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Jean Renoir : I find Musidora very mysterious.
Andrée Heuschling : Poor thing, if only you know how easy it is to seem mysterious.
Jean Renoir : An American actress?
Andrée Heuschling : Why not? What have they got over me? Nothing. Nothing at all.
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Jean Renoir : I want you to come back. Come back home. Renoir needs you.
Andrée Heuschling : Renoir? The father or the son?