Séraphine

★ 7.4 IMDb · 6,727 votes

Genres: Animation, Drama, Family

Runtime: 80 мин

Country: France

Director: Sarah Van Den Boom

Cast: Lana Ropion, Беатрис Даль, Florence Loiret Caille, Marie Zidi, Camélia Jordana, Корин Мазьеро, Simon Volodine, Stéphane Ronchevsky, Antoine Tomé, Léo Dussolier

Plot

Paris, Montmartre, 1883. Seraphine, 12 years old, leaves a monotoneous life with Jeanne, the grumpy seamstress who raised her. She is obsessed with finding out who her parents were. Flanked with Mistigri, a street child whom she takes under her wing, Séraphine retraces the secret of her origins and finds it in the battles led by the people of Montmartre.

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.