Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art.

Most people had not heard of the painter Séraphine Louis (AKA Séraphine de Senlis) before this beautiful movie came out in France in 2008. Séraphine Louis, known as Séraphine de Senlis (Séraphine of Senlis) (1864–1942), was a French painter in the naïve style. 'Lust for Life' (1955) "Lust for Life," directed by Vincente Minnelli, showed how the life of the famous …

Séraphine is a 2008 French-Belgian film directed by Martin Provost and written by Marc Abdelnour and Provost. Based on the life of French painter Séraphine de Senlis. With Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève Mnich. Séraphine was born in Northern France in 1864 where she grew up and lived in very difficult conditions, without much tenderness and support. She began to paint in 1903 after moving to Senlis to work as a housecleaner. One day, Wilhelm who has been invited by his landlady, notices a small painting lying about in her living room. At 17, she started working as a […] The intensity of her images, both in colour and replicative design, is sometimes interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche, walking a tightrope between ecstasy and mental illness. Beginning in 1881 Séraphine Louis spent twenty years as a lay sister at a convent in northern France. It stars Yolande Moreau as the French painter Séraphine Louis and Ulrich Tukur as Wilhelm Uhde. It won the 2009 César Award for Best Film. Belgian actress Yolande Moreau headlines this biopic, starring as a little-known but uncommonly brilliant painter.

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The cleaning lady is a rather rough-and-ready forty-year-old woman who is the laughing stock of others.

Directed by Martin Provost.

He is stunned to learn that the artist is no other than Séraphine.