Séraphine
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In this film based on the life of the painter Séraphine de Senlis, a German art collector on holiday notices a small but stunning painting in his rented apartment. He purchases the painting immediately and discovers that the work was created by a cleaning lady named Séraphine de Senlis. French with Chinese subtitles
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Séraphine, 2008, Martin Provost, France, 125 min, in French with Chinese subtitles
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.
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