Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis.
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Martin Provost
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20 wins & 7 nominations.
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| Yolande Moreau | ... | Séraphine Louis, dite Séraphine de Senlis | |
| Ulrich Tukur | ... | Wilhelm Uhde | |
| Anne Bennent | ... | Anne-Marie Uhde | |
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Geneviève Mnich | ... | Mme Duphot |
| Adélaïde Leroux | ... | Minouche | |
| Nico Rogner | ... | Helmut Kolle | |
| Françoise Lebrun | ... | La mère supérieure | |
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Hélène Hardouin | ... | La propriétaire |
| Serge Larivière | ... | Duval | |
| Léna Breban | ... | Soeur Marguerite (as Léna Bréban) | |
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Sandrine Bodenes | ... | Marie-Louise (as Sandrine Bodènés) |
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Muriel Riou | ... | Berthe |
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Dominique Pozzetto | ... | Anatole Duphot |
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Josette Ménard | ... | La bouchère |
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Xavier Pottier | ... | Le boucher |
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In 1914, Wilhelm Uhde, a famous German art collector, rents an apartment in the town of Senlis, forty kilometers away from Paris, in order to write and to take a rest from the hectic life he has been living in the capital. The cleaning lady is a rather rough-and-ready forty-year-old woman who is the laughing stock of others. One day, Wilhelm who has been invited by his landlady, notices a small painting lying about in her living room. He is stunned to learn that the artist is no other than Séraphine. Written by Guy Bellinger
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artist | agent artist relationship | connoisseur | female painter | maid |Parents Guide:
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Music by Louis Bénech
Lyrics by Ernest Dumont
Sung and played on the piano by Ulrich Tukur
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French visa # 117074 delivered on 27-7-2008. See more »Goofs
Wilhelm Uhde is portrayed as having a goatee beard throughout the course of the film. Portraits of him show generally a clean-shaven man or one with the small moustache. See more »Crazy Credits
The credits list the names of the paintings which are seen in the film - 10 paintings by Séraphine and the artworks owned by Uhde and Kolle. See more »Soundtracks
La Femme aux BijouxMusic by Louis Bénech
Lyrics by Ernest Dumont
Sung and played on the piano by Ulrich Tukur
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Release Date:
1 October 2008 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$38,637, 7 June 2009Gross USA:
$884,613Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$9,402,702Company Credits
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Séraphine was one of these so called common people who in the early 1900s were discovered. The expression "discovered" is not wrong, but that wasn't just about the person, it's was also about another type of seeing and another type of expression.
Séraphine lived a poor and humiliating life like most women of her class. Then this German art collector finds her. But it stops there, because for certain reasons he in the end can't improve her life materially. And the result is disastrous, because it means betrayal of a person, although not of her art.
A silent realistic movie, there you can smell the poverty and despair.