Although slowly told, Seraphine never drags.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 6, 2018

It's great we're learning about Séraphine Louis and that her work is finally being appreciated on its own terms. But as a movie, this doesn't work at all.

| Aug 9, 2018

Provost's film has few equals in depicting the dangerous territory between artistic inspiration and madness.

| Original Score: A | Jun 15, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Gives testimony to the human spirit.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 21, 2011

Thoughtful as it is, the movie lacks the poetry or point of view to see its idea through with force.

| Sep 10, 2010

Engrossing, well-shot bio-pic ... which won seven Cesars, including Best Picture, from the French Academy in 2008, has a gorgeous antique look and a surfeit of empathy. A lovely, lingering film.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Apr 2, 2010

What makes this slow, intense film so compelling is its persuasive creation of complex characters: You scarcely believe Moreau is an actor and that the film isn't, on some level, archival footage of the real painter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2010

A naive, between-the-wars French painter is brought to vivid life in the satisfying fact-inspired drama Seraphine.

| Dec 17, 2009

Provost and cowriter Marc Abdelnour explore the mutable boundaries between spirituality, naivete, genius, and madness, showing how the two outsiders and polar opposites cultivated a mutual understanding.

| Dec 17, 2009

It's a plodding film in its storytelling, but with a sensitive attitude to its subject. In its best moments, it simply wonders at the rapturous state in which this devout Christian creates her art.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

Séraphine is a deceptively subtle tale.

| Dec 4, 2009

It's like reading the introductory essay in an exhibition catalogue, except that it takes two hours. Personally, I couldn't stop thinking of Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent.

| Dec 4, 2009

This biopic, which swept the board at the Césaires, is somewhat over-inclined to reverence and simplification; but it is also, some of the time, rewarding and touching.

| Nov 27, 2009

This true story dragged out for so long that I ceased to care.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2009

Séraphine doesn't mess with the formula but the script allows plenty of awkward details to remain and we're allowed to decide for ourselves if fame was a godsend for her.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2009

Made with a remarkable attention to detail that makes the characters and period spring vividly to life

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 27, 2009

Superb central performance in this original take on the art biopic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 27, 2009

This utterly beguiling biopic about a cleaning lady with the artistic gifts of a Van Gogh is just a bit special.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 27, 2009

Depends on your levels of Christmas spirit. Nativity either glorifies the charming amateurishness of the British school play or celebrates the slapdash incompetence of the British film industry.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 27, 2009