Séraphine

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Yolande Moreau
Séraphine Louis

Ulrich Tukur
Wilhelm Uhde

Anne Bennent
Anne-Marie Uhde

Geneviève Mnich
Mme Duphot

Nico Rogner
Helmut Kolle

Adélaïde Leroux
Minouche

Serge Larivière
Duval

Dominique Pozzetto
Anatole Duphot

Martin Provost
Director

Marc Abdelnour
Writer

Martin Provost
Writer

Miléna Poylo
Producer

Gilles Sacuto
Producer

Michael Galasso
Original Music

Laurent Brunet
Cinematographer

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Critic Reviews for Séraphine

Audience Reviews for Séraphine

• Sep 25, 2012

  Close but not the full set of marks from me. I found it a bit too slow moving at times. It is possible to develop a complex character without taking it at a snail's pace.
  

  John B Super Reviewer
• May 07, 2012

  Beautifully calm yet tragic, this poignant and honest drama about the life of a genius painter was intensely inspirational and saddening at the same time. Yolande Moreau captured Seraphine Louis with her superb performance, and the Cold War setting was enthralling and gave the film further depth.
  August S Super Reviewer
• Apr 01, 2011

  An excellent bio-pic of the primitive artist, Seraphine de Senlis (the fabulous Yolande Moreau), who heard voices that told her to paint the most intricate, beautiful paintings taken from nature. She came to the attention of an art critic and collector, Wilhelm Unde (Ulrich Tukur) who eventually championed her work in France. The strength of Ms Moreau's performance is what made this film for this viewer. She is phenomenal, capturing the single-minded purpose with which she carried out her duties, her naïvetà (C), her devious nature, and her incredible talent as an artist. Everyone else merely inhabits the frame. Ms Moreau commands it.
  

  Mark A Super Reviewer
• Feb 26, 2011

  Sometimes art comes from the most unexpected places, and that is especially true of Seraphine Louis(Yolande Moreau) who in 1914 takes all sorts of odd jobs cleaning to support her painting which she was told to do by a higher power while at a convent. At the same time, she is two months behind on her rent. But that's not important when she is doing what she loves and can be outside where she can feel the ground beneath her bare feet in the countryside. One of the houses she cleans is for Madame Duphot(Genevieve Mnich) which she is renting out to Wilhelm Uhde(Ulrich Tukur) and his sister Anne-Marie(Anne Bennent). Wilhelm is an influential art critic from the city who was the first one to bring Picasso to the public's attention. So, while the film moves in leisurely fashion, the world of 1914 is not, as a war on the horizon will change everything as realism is being replaced by modernism and beyond in the art world.(But the world is not changing quickly enough as Wilhelm tells Seraphine at one point that he will not marry a woman.) All of which is captured with nuance in this endearing film.
  Walter M Super Reviewer

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