Good One Review: A Camping Trip Goes Wrong in This Perceptive Coming-of-Age-Tale of a Teenage Girl Betrayed by Men

Good One review: A camping trip goes wrong in this perceptive coming-of-age-tale of a teenage girl betrayed by men

A girl goes into the woods and re-emerges with a tarnished view of the world and her place in it. This is the premise of writer-director India Donaldson’s debut indie drama about toxic elements of masculinity and a young woman’s loss of innocence.

Nathan Studios international collaboration 'Renoir' enters Cannes

**media[13196]**From left: Art Atayde, wife Nathan Studios producer Sylvia Sanchez-Atayde, Yui Suzuki, Filipino film producer Alem Berg of Daluyong Studios, Lily Frankly, Hikari Oshida, Japanese co-producer Eiko Mizuno Gray of Loaded Film.International collaboration holds significant promise for the Philippine film industry to enter the global market, following the success of Nathan Studios over the past three years. Now, they are co-producing t…

‘Renoir’ Review: An 11-Year-Old Girl Ponders the Mysteries of the Universe in Chie Hayakawa’s Extremely Low-Key Coming-of-Age Drama

Cannes: The "Plan 75" director follows her debut with a cuter but similarly morbid story about a girl making sense of her father's imminent death in 1980s Japan.

Chie Hayakawa • Director of Renoir

20/05/2025 - CANNES 2025: The Japanese director shares her thoughts about art, life and death, and describes how her movie parallels her own life journey

AwardsWatch - ‘Renoir’ Review: Chie Hayakawa’s Gentle Coming of Age Story Gives Way to a Powerful Debut Performance from Yui Suzuki [C+] Cannes

Director Chie Hayakawa’s sophomore feature, after 2022’s Plan 75, sees her pivot from telling a futuristic story about euthanasia to a past-set coming-of-age tale. Renoir is a gentle, yet sombre tale told from the perspective of a young Japanese girl whose father is suffering from a terminal form of cancer. The Japanese Cannes competition title…