Top new movies releasing in April include a selection of animation, comedy, horror, drama, romance and thrillers. Here are myETVmedia’s recommendations for Friday April 5th – Fri April 12th.

Renoir
The Sapphires
42
Revolution
The Company You Keep
The Place Beyond the Pines

Renoir

Fri April 5th

Genre: Drama

Director: Gilles Bourdos

Studio: Mongrel Media

Starring: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers

Synopsis: Filled with Renoir colors, the film captures the same airy “floating” look 
that marked the painter’s work.  It is directed by France’s Gilles Bourdos Disparus, Inquiétude, Afterwards and based on the
book “Le Tableau amoureux” by Auguste’s great-grandson, Jacques Renoir.

In 1915 on the Côte d’Azur, Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) is in his twilight years. He’s still mourning the loss of his wife, and tormented by arthritis pain. He’s sick at heart when he gets news his son Jean (Vincent Rottiers) has been wounded in action. But when a young girl enters his life, the old painter finds her youth and beauty rejuvenating.

Full of life, red-headed Andrée (Christa Theret) will become his last model. Jean, now back at home and convalescing, he too falls under the girl’s spell. Despite his father’s opposition Jean falls in love with this wild spirit.

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The Sapphires

Fri April 5th

Genre: Drama

Director: Wayne Blair

Studio: Entertainment One

Starring: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, “The Sapphires” follows four vivacious, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission as they learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertains the U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell), Gail (Deborah Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy) and Kay (Shari Sebbens) are discovered by Dave (Chris O’Dowd), a good-humored talent scout with a kind heart, very little rhythm but a great knowledge of soul music. As their manager, Dave books the sisters their first true gig giving them their first taste of stardom, and travels them to Vietnam to sing for the American troops.

 

42

Fri April 12th

Genre: Drama

Director: Brian Helgeland

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Starring: Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Nicole Beharie

Synopsis: The film stars Chadwick Boseman The Express as Robinson, who became the first African American to be signed to Major League Baseball, and Oscar® nominee Harrison Ford Witness as the Dodger’s general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show. Jackie Robinson involvement in Major League Baseball helped bring an end to racial segregation in the sport.

 

Revolution

Fri April 12th

Genre: Documentary

Director: Rob Stewart

Studio: D Films 

Starring: Rob Stewart, Dr. Boris Worm, David Hannan, Emily Hunter, Felix Finkbeiner

Synopsis: Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed Sharkwater documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he’ll discover that it’s not only sharks that are in grave danger – it’s humanity itself.

In an effort to uncover the truth and find the secret to saving the ecosystems we depend on for survival, Stewart embarks on a life-threatening adventure. From the coral reefs in Papua New Guinea and deforestation in Madagascar to the largest and most destructive environmental project in history in Alberta, Canada, he reveals that all of our actions are interconnected and that environmental degradation, species loss, ocean acidification, pollution and food/water scarcity are reducing the Earth’s ability to house humans. How did this happen, and what will it take to change the course that humanity has set itself on?

 

The Company You Keep

 

Fri April 12th

Genre: Thriller (TIFF Selection)

Director: Robert Redford

Studio: Entertainment One

Starring: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: Jim Grant (Robert Redford) is a civil rights lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York. His world is turned upside down, when a brash young reporter named Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf), exposes Grant’s true identity as a former 1970s anti war radical fugitive wanted for murder. After living for more than 30 years underground as a lawyer, Grant must now go on the run. He is the center of a nationwide manhunt and with the FBI in hot pursuit; he sets off on a cross-country journey to track down the one person that can clear his name.

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The Place Beyond the Pines

Fri April 12th

Genre: Drama (TIFF Selection)

Director: Derek Cianfrance

Studio: Entertainment One

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Eva Mendes

Synopsis: Luke (Ryan Gosling) is in constant motion, a high-wire motorcycle stunt performer who travels from town to town with the carnival. Luke faces a personal crisis when he discovers he has a son with his former girlfriend Romina (Eva Mendes).

Realizing that his way of life doesn’t provide him with the means to support a family, Luke turns to robbing banks. Unfortunately, at one of his heists he crosses the path of an ambitious rookie cop (Bradley Cooper). Their confrontation leads the two men on a collision course.

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Christophe Chanel