Francie Noyes will moderate a post-film discussion with the audience on Saturday, October 3.
AWARDS: Cairo International Film Festival - Best Actress, César Awards - Best Actress/Best Cinematography/Best Costume Design/Best Film/Best Music Written for a Film/Best Production Design/Best Writing – Original, Lumiere Awards - Best Actress, Newport Beach Film Festival -Best Actor/Best Actress/ Best Director/Best Film/Best Screenplay, Étoiles d'Or - Best Actress
SÉRAPHINE is the true story of Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41 — self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel — began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector — he was one of the first collectors of Picasso and champion of naïve primitive painter Le Douanier Rousseau — discovered her paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his lodgings in Senlis outside Paris. Uhde became her patron and grouped her work with other naïve painters – the so-called “Sacred Heart Painters” — with acclaimed shows in Paris, elsewhere in Europe and eventually at New York’s MOMA. Director Martin Provost builds his story around the relationship between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman’s spirit. A sleeper hit in France, SÉRAPHINE went on to a surprise win of the Best Picture and Best Actress for Yolande Moreau along with five other awards at the 2009 Cesars, the French equivalent of the Academy Awards.
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