Séraphine (2008)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 125m
Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
Synopsis:
Before the First World War a German art collector in northern France happens upon an undiscovered talent in the shape of his cleaner, who produces accomplished primitive canvases by scrimping and scavenging her materials where she may. Years later he returns to the area and finds an astonishing blossoming has taken place; he begins dealing in her work, but the Wall Street Crash and mental illness cut short public recognition of Séraphine de Senlis, as she would become known.
Review:
A film that in formal terms gives little away, composed of sometimes wordless sequences dovetailed with fades to black. The paintings leave an indelible impression, and Moreau truly inhabits her role, but it is inevitably the character of the art dealer to whom one feels closer kinship.
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 125m
Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
Synopsis:
Before the First World War a German art collector in northern France happens upon an undiscovered talent in the shape of his cleaner, who produces accomplished primitive canvases by scrimping and scavenging her materials where she may. Years later he returns to the area and finds an astonishing blossoming has taken place; he begins dealing in her work, but the Wall Street Crash and mental illness cut short public recognition of Séraphine de Senlis, as she would become known.
Review:
A film that in formal terms gives little away, composed of sometimes wordless sequences dovetailed with fades to black. The paintings leave an indelible impression, and Moreau truly inhabits her role, but it is inevitably the character of the art dealer to whom one feels closer kinship.
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 125m
Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent
Synopsis:
Before the First World War a German art collector in northern France happens upon an undiscovered talent in the shape of his cleaner, who produces accomplished primitive canvases by scrimping and scavenging her materials where she may. Years later he returns to the area and finds an astonishing blossoming has taken place; he begins dealing in her work, but the Wall Street Crash and mental illness cut short public recognition of Séraphine de Senlis, as she would become known.
Review:
A film that in formal terms gives little away, composed of sometimes wordless sequences dovetailed with fades to black. The paintings leave an indelible impression, and Moreau truly inhabits her role, but it is inevitably the character of the art dealer to whom one feels closer kinship.