MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Seraphine
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of the Great Depression and World War II.
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Mixing her paints with candle wax and singing to herself like a sorceress devising a transformative brew, Séraphine Louis was a maid, a servant, who spent her long days washing linens, scrubbing floors.
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MPAA rating:
Unrated
Cast:
Corentin Lobet; Anne Benoît; Geneviève Mnich; Yolande Moreau; Nico Rogner; Françoise Lebrun; Ulrich Tukur; Serge Larivière
Directed by:
Martin Provost
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Drama Running time:
02:10
Release date:
2009
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