The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
MARTIN PROVOST skirts two troublesome genres in this earthy, scuffed, beautifully performed study of the French primitive painter Séraphine de Senlis. Too many films that deal with mental illness treat the condition as a kind of divine superpower: confusion balanced by the gift of naive wisdom. Conversely, too many films about artists treat genius as a troublesome disease.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Martin Provost's life of the painter Séraphine de Senlis is a study in subtlety worthy of Flaubert, says Jason Solomons A surprise winner of seven Césars – the French Oscars – including best film, Séraphine is a deceptively subtle tale based on the true story of the life and art of a simple maid discovered by a German art critic in the French town of...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Seraphine, Martin Provost's poignant and salutary biopic of French painter Seraphine de Senlis, not only sheds light on a visionary artist whose story is little-known but it…
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
If Martin Provost's engrossing biopic is to be believed, the artist was never cut out for a life of stardom, says Xan Brooks Séraphine de Senlis was a lowly French domestic who painted on the sly. She spent her coppers on brushes and oils and daubed primitive still lifes that caught the eye of a visiting art critic. And yet, if Martin Provost's engrossing biopic...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
SÉRAPHINE (PG) *** DIRECTED BY: MARTIN PROVOST STARRING: YOLANDE MOREAU, ULRICH TUKUR, ANNE BENNENT
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
SÉRAPHINE (PG) *** DIRECTED BY: MARTIN PROVOST STARRING: YOLANDE MOREAU, ULRICH TUKUR, ANNE BENNENT
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Martin Provost, Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur. Rating * * * *
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Xan Brooks finds this biopic of the French artist a poignant salute to a life on the margins Xan Brooks Henry Barnes
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... tour de force which makes even De Niro or Keitel's greatest hits look mannered and actorly. Martin Provost's film was inspired by the life of the "primitive modernist" painter Séraphine de Senlis, whose story carries echoes of the Susan Boyle phenomenon, though let us hope Boyle doesn't end up like Séraphine, who from the outset is clearly a few sandwiches...
FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... like an update on Death Wish …with Gerard Butler. [Nationwide / Cert 18] Nativity! (E1 Films): Martin Freeman (the former Office star currently appearing in those annoying anti-piracy ads ) plays a school teacher putting on a nativity play. Directed by Debbie Isitt, it is a British comedy and co-stars Alan Carr – two things which don’t bode well. [Nationwide /Cert PG] IN LIMITED RELEASE...
