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Variety.com - A naive, between-the-wars French painter is brought to vivid life in the satisfying fact-inspired drama “Seraphine.” An extraordinary perf by vet thesp Yolande Moreau in the title role will propel this throwback example of vintage Euro arthouse storytelling to a larger canvas of fests, theatrical deals and homevid.
Just prior to the Great War, in the small town of Senlis, not far from Paris, middle-aged loner Seraphine Louis (Moreau) works a grueling series of domestic jobs while painting at night. In her fleeting free time, she communes with nature, furtively gathering soil, animal’s blood and even the run-off oil from church candles to mix the paints she otherwise couldn’t afford. Fittingly, her intricate, colorful canvases are of fruit and flowers run riot.
When the German art critic Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur) and his sister Anne-Marie (Anne Bennent) move to town, he’s shocked to discover one of Seraphine’s smaller paintings at a dinner party thrown by the well-to-do art lover Madame Duphot (Genevieve Mnich).
Uhde buys all Seraphine’s work promptly, with the middle of the pic delineating the delicate relationship between aesthete and savant… [Full Story]
