
In 1914, Wilhelm Uhde, a famous German art collector, rents an apartment in the town of Senlis, forty kilometers away from Paris, in order to write and to take a rest from the hectic life he has been living in the capital. The cleaning lady is a rather rough-and-ready forty-year-old woman who is the laughing stock of others. One day, Wilhelm who has been invited by his landlady, notices a small painting lying about in her living room. He is stunned to learn that the artist is... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1914, Wilhelm Uhde, a famous German art collector, rents an apartment in the town of Senlis, forty kilometers away from Paris, in order to write and to take a rest from the hectic life he has been living in the capital. The cleaning lady is a rather rough-and-ready forty-year-old woman who is the laughing stock of others. One day, Wilhelm who has been invited by his landlady, notices a small painting lying about in her living room. He is stunned to learn that the artist is no other than Séraphine.
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| Time OutTrevor JohnstonThis utterly beguiling biopic about a cleaning lady with the artistic gifts of a Van Gogh is just a bit special. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt "explains" nothing but feels everything. It reminds me of two other films: Bresson's "Mouchette," about a poor girl victimized by a village, and Karen Gehre's "Begging Naked," shown at Ebertfest this year, about a woman whose art is prized even as she lives in Central Park. |
| indieWireLeo GoldsmithRelies heavily on Moreau's gripping, continually surprising performance to effectively convey the oracular urgency and fractured, Dionysian mentality of Seraphine de Senlis and her work. |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Jon FroschThoughtful as it is, the movie lacks the poetry or point of view to see its idea through with force. |
| Boxoffice MagazineJohn P. McCarthyA list of the striking images that Provost composes would be long and enticing, even though words cannot do them or the movie justice. |
| Washington TimesKelly Jane TorranceAlthough slowly told, Seraphine never drags. |
| Time Out ChicagoJoshua RothkopfLike Amadeus, Séraphine wants to get its hands dirty with the work itself. The movie understands creative types and their whims, even if it tips toward a long-telegraphed retribution. |
| AV ClubNoel MurraySéraphine is far more powerful when it lingers on Louis at work. |
| The New RepublicStanley KauffmannProvost has made a picture that is almost biblical in its simplicity and its passion. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonAn uncommonly moving and wonderful experience: it is a cinematic depiction of a mindset, and a quiet and especially internal mindset at that. |