Séraphine (2008) on Netflix
Séraphine Louis works as a housekeeper and paints in her small home, using materials she gathers, like soil from plants. The critic Wilhelm Uhde sees her pictures and promises to promote them.
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Trailer
Plot summary
Séraphine Louis is a middle-aged housekeeper with no training who paints in the candlelit room of her small home. She takes inspiration from religion and from the beauty of nature, and on her walks to work she stops to gaze at trees. She gathers materials such as soil from plants and blood from a dead pig, and uses them to make her art; when someone asks how she gets the unusual effect in her reds, she says it is a secret. Wilhelm Uhde, a noted art critic, knows her first as a housekeeper, then sees a painting of hers and finds it very promising. Séraphine thinks nobody will take a housekeeper seriously, but Uhde insists that she has talent, says he will support her and bring her work to attention, and urges her to follow her gift.
Cast
- Muriel Riouas Berthe
