Séraphine

Name: Séraphine
Director: Martin Provost
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2008-10-01
Duration: 2 h 5 min
Rating: 6.754
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich, Nico Rogner

Directed by Martin Provost

History

Drama

20082h 5m6.8

Overview

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.