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Dominican Rep. Séraphine
2,244
Drama
Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis, born in 1864. Films about painters tend to concentrate on the masters, but Martin Provost turns his camera on a little-known yet endlessly fascinating artist known as Séraphine de Senlis, a simple housekeeper whose brilliantly colourful canvases adorn some of the most famous galleries in the world. Sparse and frankly realized, Provost's fictionalized portrait of this forgotten ... [+]
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"Moreau is bewitching -- she simply breathes her role, without a hint of vanity" | POS |
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"Provost and cowriter Marc Abdelnour explore the mutable boundaries between spirituality, naivete, genius, and madness" | NEG |
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"What makes Seraphine, directed and co-written by Martin Provost, so exceptional is that it neither condescends to nor romanticizes its subject" | POS |
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"'Séraphine' is one of the most evocative films about an artist I've ever seen" | POS |
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"The rare movie that manages to convey the inner soul of an artist" | POS |
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