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Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil reports that Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep led on the first ballots for Best Actor and Actress at yesterday's voting for the National Society of Film Critics Awards .

Critics' group picks 'Hurt Locker' as 2009's best NEW YORK - The National Society of Film Critics has selected "The Hurt Locker" as the best picture of 2009 at a meeting in New York City.

Yolande Moreau, below, stars as SA©raphine Louis, a frowsy, bulky French washerwoman who lives alone in bitter poverty.

Yolande Moreau stars in the French film "Seraphine," opening today at the Wheeler Opera House.

Our world has allowed some of its creative geniuses to die in obscurity. Others, like painter Seraphine Louis, have undeservedly remained there, long after death.

The Sunrise Theater's Sunflix Series presents the multiple award winning French film, "Seraphine," for a five-day run beginning Thursday, Oct.

Louise in Louise-Michel , a comedy in which the personal is political. Photo: Supplied Selected cinemas Reviewer Jake Wilson THE author of The Threepenny Opera might have got some laughs out of Gustave de Kervern and Benoit Delepine's cheerfully political comedy, named in honour of a famed anarchist of the 19th century.

Yolande Moreau plays the industrious but touched washerwoman-turned-painter Seraphine de Senlis with an open-faced conviction that is almost unnerving in its intensity.

When we first meet Seraphine de Senlis, it's hard not to feel confused. This most ordinary of women, this overweight housekeeper trudging heavily through cobblestone streets in a shapeless black dress, she could not possibly be the subject of a major French motion picture, let alone one that won seven Cesars, including best film, best screenplay, ...

According to Variety , Sony Pictures Classics has snapped up the U.S. and Latin American rights to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs for $1 million.

Showing: Opens Sept. 4 at Orchard MUSIC BOX FILMS A seemingly oblivious Seraphine gets a visit from her young friend Minouche .

Pigments of her imagination: Yolande Moreau as the painter Seraphine Louis. Martin Provost's Sraphine tells a story at once familiar and curious.

Pigments of her imagination: Yolande Moreau as the painter Seraphine Louis. Martin Provost's Sraphine tells a story at once familiar and curious.

The old chestnut about suffering for one's art finds new life in Martin Provost's wrenching bio-pic of SA©raphine Louis, the "Modern Primitive," as critic Wilhelm Uhde insisted on calling her.

Yolande Moreau is enlightening at the tragic Seraphine. By a weird coincidence, this week brings two monumental performances by French-language actresses.

STEPHEN COLE S raphine Written by Martin Provost and Marc Abdelnour Directed by Martin Provost Starring Yolande Moreau and Ulrich Tukur Classification: PG Most films about painters fall into the trap of staring over the artist's shoulders as they work the canvas.

Yolande Moreau as Sraphine Louis, who spent her days as a maid, then went home to create vibrant paintings of flowers and trees.

She eked out a living cleaning houses in a French village by day and painted furiously by night.

You might not look twice at her. Seraphine is a bulky, work-worn housecleaner who gets down on her knees in a roomy print dress and fiercely scrubs the floor.

She is sustained by her faith and the vivid pictures she creates with paint made of mud, blood, and foliage.