Great movie!!!!!! if your an artist you would love this

The pre-war section of this is wonderfully done, with Provost and Moreau working very well in tandem to create a nuanced character on the borders of sanity. The attention paid to composition and flora is essential and superbly done, providing a lush and still world to be twisted into paint. The problem is the giant leap it makes, across far too many years, to Uhde & Louis' reconnection. The gap ruins to flow of the film, and the remainder feels like a summation, a rush to the pat biopic truth.

An intelligent biopic with full and interesting characters. Subjects of culturedness vs naivety in art, treatment of mental illness, class relations and human connection are each touched upon lightly but always astutely and with sensitivity to historical context. Skilled directing and the performances are top-notch, Moreau's is really great.

"In consistently erring of the side of subtlety, Moreau's performance also proves a perfect tonal match for Provost's subtle, meticulous, and frequently beautiful compositions." - Ryan Stewart

Next to Demme's expressionism and Troell's realism, Provost's good film is banal.

Overall a descent film, but the theme about the troubled artist, seems overtly constructed and cliché filled, because we have seen this a million times before. A more subtle approach would a have suited the films style better, in my opinion.

This absorbing French movie has a Romantic view of artistic expression and a tragic ending, but it honors the Christian muse of the title character.

A movie about the unknowable, intangible (and, as this movie occasionally suggests, divine) inspiration for art. But, in contrasting the sublimity of Seraphine's art with the destruction it wreaks on her life, it's also unbearably tragic.