Edinburgh Festival

Séraphine

  • Duration: 126
  • Certificate: PG
  • Directed by: Martin Provost
  • Written by: Marc Abdelnour, Martin Provost
  • Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich
  • Year: 2008
  • Country of origin: France/Belgium
  • Website: www.seraphinemovie.com

The unsentimental and patiently rendered story of a devout young washerwoman, exceptionally played by Moreau, who spends her evenings painting with foraged materials. In 1914 she is 'discovered' by an art dealer (Tukur), who feels an affinity with the misunderstood outcast, and returns later, determined to make her a star.

Séraphine

Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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Seraphine

Seraphine

(3 stars)13 Nov 2009

(PG) 126min Senlis, a small town outside Paris in 1914. By day the middle-aged and devoutly Catholic Seraphine (Yolande Moreau) toils away as a servant and washer woman. In the evenings she paints on her hands and knees in her room, using soil…

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