SÉRAPHINE

By Martin PROVOST

PANTAFLIX - as BROAD

Drama - Completed 2008

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis, a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter.

    • Year of production
    • 2008
    • Genres
    • Drama, Historical
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM, FRANCE
    • Director(s)
    • Martin PROVOST
    • Writer(s)
    • Martin PROVOST, Marc ABDELNOUR
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/1C5D-35A2-40F0-80A2-E244-E
    • Producer(s)
    • Miléna POYLO, Gilles SACUTO
    • Synopsis
    • 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 Great Depression and World War II.