Séraphine

The Vision of an Uncanny Painter

Making a film about the life of an artist is a risky proposition. The paint box arrives full of clichés and unexamined assumptions about the creative temperament, and these grow more assertive if mental illness is part of the biographical material. You are likely to end up with a lot of huffing and puffing and mystification, rather than any real insight into the mysteries of the work.
There are exceptions. Maurice Pialat’s “Van Gogh” (1991), one of a slew of movies about that unhappy genius, is one, and “Séraphine,” Martin Provost’s new film, winner of seven Césars, including best film, is another. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (4113 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 5 giugno 2009