Yolande Moreau is an uneducated and devout housekeeper who at night creates boldly original paintings. Real Moreau is now considered one of the most significant naive painters. Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau) worked as a cook and housekeeper in an affluent French country home in the early 1900s. In her off-hours Séraphine painted pictures of her rural environment. Having only the scantest materials at hand, she created pigments from elements such as animal blood, oil from church candles, and earth. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector, discovered the self-taught artist's paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his lodgings in Senlis outside Paris.
Keywords
- César Award for Best Film
- Film Fest Gent !
- Gender
- Painting in Cinema
- biopic
- friendship
- history
- madness
- women
Actors
- Yolande Moreau
- Ulrich Tukur
- Anne Bennent
- Geneviève Mnich
- Nico Rogner
Director
- Martin Provost
Drama
2h
FRENCH
Portrait of the important but unknown artist of “naive art,” Séraphine Louis. Awarded seven Césars.
Portrait of the important but unknown artist of “naive art,” Séraphine Louis. Awarded seven Césars.
Yolande Moreau is an uneducated and devout housekeeper who at night creates boldly original paintings. Real Moreau is now considered one of the most significant naive painters.
Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau) worked as a cook and housekeeper in an affluent French country home in the early 1900s. In her off-hours Séraphine painted pictures of her rural environment. Having only the scantest materials at hand, she created pigments from elements such as animal blood, oil from church candles, and earth. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector, discovered the self-taught artist's paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his lodgings in Senlis outside Paris.
Festivals
Cast & Crew
Director
Martin Provost
Cast
Yolande Moreau
Cast
Ulrich Tukur
Cast
Anne Bennent
Cast
Geneviève Mnich
Cast
Nico Rogner