I wonder what Jean Renoir would have made of this movie. It's about the artist who came to model for the painter father and ended up marrying the filmmaker son. More is made of the father-son relationship than Jean Renoir said ever existed between them.
Yet, there were some fairly powerful moments, including a scene in which the young model DeeDee, who becomes Catherine Hessling, looks exactly like Nana, perhaps her best film role.
And the Alexandre Desplat score was quite wonderful.