technical and artistic
original title Séraphine
Director Martin Povost
Cast Yolanda Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennet,
Francoise Lebrun, Gneviéve Mnich, Nico Roger, Adélaïde Leroux, Serge Lariviere.
Genre Drama, Biography
Duration 125 min.
Nationality France
Year 2008
Synopsis
tells the story of Seraphine Seraphine de Senlis Seraphine Louis or as known in the art world, artist drawn in naive painting, or as called Wilhelm Uhde this current, modern primitive painting. The film shows the artist's life since he met Wilhelm Uhde, the dealer and art critic who discovered and released until his death.
central theme of the film:
As the director says this "is a film about people, about the meaning we can give to life and very little inner wealth. Is the inner life of contemplation, the inner mind development, creation and, in a sense, love. "
Questions for Reflection:
Séraphine receives a call from his guardian angel who tells him he has to devote himself to painting. 40, no experience in this field leaves his job cleaning the convent and goes to live in the village to fulfill his plan. Perhaps his devout character, Seraphine is what your inner voice tells him without hesitation, not raises another possibility. There are many historical figures considered visionaries who hear an internal call to guide them in their work, it comes from something or someone greater than themselves, some call it God, some inner voice, others beyond. So it was with Socrates and Gandhi.
And I wonder Is there a difference between the visionary and the lunatic, and if there is, what is? How far is crazy to hear the call and follow it? When is a visionary in loco for society? How can we determine when an idea is a vision or madness?
Art as a way of life
Here Séraphine turns his inner world in art, and this art happens to be what gives meaning to his life, as if brought to the world of living in this plane of reality where we are, messages from other worlds that connect us with our most intimate and genuine. This gives meaning to his life and lets you go through the conventional terrestrial and go beyond what is established, showing a hardly find absolute fulfillment in our lives humans alienated.
And I wonder where is the sense of my life? Where is the sense of the lives of people close to me or I meet on the street? I can not imagine more fully to find the meaning of life of each and take it to the final. Why not tell us this in school? Why not tell us about this media? What we do not educate ourselves to find meaning in our lives? As well seen in the film, when one knows what to do to find the means to do so. Can you know what is the meaning of your life since childhood when most hear the word "no"?
Body-Soul-Body
society. Seraphine is fully in contact with your body and your body is with nature. When walking barefoot in the grass when the wind caresses your face when climbing trees or when introduced into the stream, every cell of his being seems to absorb what is around him.
seems that through the sensations when in contact with nature Séraphine is transported to another dimension, to a distant world, which brings us back as news through his paintings, the news is intense, colorful, cool, cloudy, divine, carnal ... Because while painting is there and he is here at the same time, is there in soul and is here in the form of hands that interact with specific objects, such as canvas, paints and brushes. At such times it is the channel, the channel between the world of soul and the world body. She is fused body and soul.
Alma. Seraphine is a religious woman who seems to be in close contact with his soul. Has spent many years serving in a convent of nuns who established a very close and positive relationship, which may have facilitated its full confidence in the "divine" in the intangible, in the call. Is devoted to the Virgin, a figure who carries with him everywhere as a guide or support and vital contact with his soul.
Company. Women of low social status who has worked all his life and probably would not have felt the tuck of the adults in your child, you receive a constant derogatory treatment of the inhabitants of his village. She knows who she is and what is his place and he knows how others are. Is suspicious and again and again gives reason to reaffirm their attitude. Finally, he gives up this society and took refuge in the past, too many broken promises that prevent their full and genuine participation is a socially recognized. Or maybe it is society that the casts, the deviation in excess of the "right" of acceptability.
And wonder how You can leave impregnated by nature, be a channel, in a world where there are fewer natural areas and those near the cities are full of contaminants such as pylons harmful living organisms? Can you contact with your soul when you walk down the street of a city or a village, you assail its frenetic rhythms, their lights and sounds aggressive canned? Are they compatible contemplation and speed? Is not the speed a tool used consciously to alienate and turn away from our most intimate nature?
Create-Exhibit
There are two distinct phases in the creative process of this artist. One is the creation. She needs to create and create, at any rate. Does what is necessary to fulfill his plan. At this stage it is, nature and society, the latter as a resource through which to get the necessary tools for the job.
The second phase is exposure, the debut of creation. Spinning with his philosophy of life, the great exhibition represent the display between two worlds, the divine and human, and probably the integration of both in his person. She began exhibiting her paintings individually, beginning to know the people, who responded positively. But the great exposure that she hopes does not occur, at least not at the expected time, and the impossibility of integration crosses the boundary.
Are the creative process and the exposure time or two separate aspects of creation is not complete if there is no exposure? Is it necessary recognition to achieve full social absolute? "The commercial side of art alienates the artist?
ttal Lizarraga
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