Seraphine Louis (1864-1942), who used the name Seraphine de Senlis (for the town where she worked), was French cleaning-woman who heared voices of angels and painted vivid flower arrangements. She was eventually closed into mental hospital. Unconventional and humanistic, Seraphine is a film which treats this obese middle-aged woman - who looked like a sweet old granny in the pictures I have seen - as a beautiful human being, unpolluted crazy visionary. Unfortunately film itself is academic with drab and ugly colours - so natural, so normal, so realistic. Subject was interesting and rich, film was well-meaning but poor.
Review of Seraphine
