Film Description
Séraphine
Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Adelaide Leroux, Yolande Moreau, Anne Bennent, Genevieve Mnich, Nico Rogner
Biography/Drama, PG, 122 minutes Language: French and German with English Subtitles
(France/Belgium)
"4 STARS! Miraculous."
- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Sublime… one of the most evocative films about an artist I’ve ever seen."
- David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
Synopsis: SERAPHINE centres on Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple housekeeper whose brilliantly colorful canvases adorn some of the most famous galleries in the world. Wilhelm Uhde, a German art critic and collector (Ulrich Ukur/THE LIVES OF OTHERS) discovers her paintings while she is working for him as a housekeeper in Senlis near Paris in the early part of the 20th century. Martin Provost’s fictionalized and tragic portrait of this forgotten painter is a testament to creativity and the resilience of one woman’s spirit. In 1913, the German collector Wilhelm Uhde, the first Picasso buyer and discoverer of acclaimed naïve primitive painter Le Douanier Rousseau, rents an apartment in Senlis in order to write and take a break from his Parisian life. He hires a cleaning lady, Séraphine, 48 years old. Some time later, while visiting the home of a prominent local family, he notices a small painting on wood. His surprise is great when he finds out that it is by none other than Séraphine. A poignant and unexpected relationship then develops between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady.
Official website: www.seraphinemovie.comScreening:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 7 PM, Bayfield 7 Cinemas
Awards:
- WINNER, BEST ACTRESS, ( YOLANDE MOREAU), BEST FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST ORIGINAL
- WINNER, BEST ACTRESS (YOLANDE MOREAU) LUMIERE, AWARDS, FRANCE, 2009
- WINNER, BEST ACTOR (TUKOR), BEST ACTRESS (MOREAU), BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY, NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL, 2009
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