A tender but mawkishly simple melodrama about a handicapped painter who falls in love with a misogynistic orphan in Depression-era Nova Scotia, “Maudie” would be impossible to take seriously if not ...

Earlier this year, a painting by the Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis sold for $45,000 Canadian dollars. When she was alive, Lewis, born in 1903, sold such pieces from her home for $5 apiece. That ...

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Sally Hawkins as Maud Lewis (photo by Duncan Deyoung, courtesy Mongrel Media) Maudie, directed by Aisling Walsh, depicts the life of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis (1903–1970). The film does not ...

It took just one look to beguile Sally Hawkins. When Irish director Aisling Walsh proposed the actress star in Maudie as Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis, the Oscar-nominated Hawkins said yes almost ...

In her lifetime, Canadian artist Maud Lewis sold her paintings door to door. Decades after her death, a movie about her life story is selling out theatres in her home province of Nova Scotia. A ...

A harsh love story bereft of sentiment, Maudie has been getting strong reviews in America, Britain and here. And though set in the wilds of Newfoundland and based on the true story of a Canadian folk ...

Cruel beautiful world (a title stolen from novelist Caroline Leavitt) perfectly describes the animating vision behind Aisling Walsh’s magical Maudie. The moving biopic focuses on Nova Scotia folk ...