Pierre Bonnard is one of the great masters of 20th century painting. A painter of the intimate, driven by an obsession with landscapes and domestic scenes, his timeless oeuvre earned him great criticism in his time.
How did Bonnard, a private, anxious man, who lived an ordinary day-to-day existence, become the incontestable painter of intimacy, capable of transforming reality into a unique and incandescent world?
Through his paintings, his personal notebooks, his correspondence with Matisse and Vuillard, the photographs he was so fond of, and the places he lived, which he painted and exalted time and time again, the film plunges viewers into the world of this master of colour.
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