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Seraphine

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:June 5, 2009
Running time:130 minutes
Cast:Ulrich Tukur, Yolande Moreau, Françoise Lebrun, Serge Larivière, Anne Benoît
Director:Martin Provost
Producer:Gilles Sacuto, Milena Poylo
Writer:Martin Provost
Distributor:Music Box Films

Description: 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.

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