Camille Claudel
by Bruno Nuytten
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Actor: Alain Cuny, G?rard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani, Laurent Gr?vill, Madeleine RobinsonDirector: Bruno Nuytten
Brand: ADJANI,ISABELLE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 159 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Camille Claudel
Movie Review: How not to Sculpt when Angry?
Summary: 4 Stars
I was just amazed and impressed with the director's attempt to convey the method of creation for a sculpture. I do not think he was successful other than letting me know it is extremely messy, models must always be freezing, takes a lifetime to perfect, and lots of mushing translates to a lifesize sensous naked piece of marble. Tall order to show more I imagine, but I keep thinking Picasso and Michaelangelo, albeit easier to demo. Unfortunately, I have such a limited background in art that I was expecting to really see the process. I got a glimpse into that secret world which I imagine earns the respect of all true artists. When Rodin insults the photographer I was saddened as that about measures the depth of my creative talent. However, Adjani is truly the centerpiece of creation in this film, I recommend a film on her 'creating' Camille, it was incredible.... I was surprised that the only piece delicately depicted in the film was the beautiful Giganti foot and then maybe his face. Otherwise the rest of the imitations, one would think close to the originals, were absolutely course, unfinished and unimpressive. I think of the Pride and Prejudice scene at first sight of Mr. Darcy's sculpture collection.....breathtaking!!! Gerald was perfectly suited much like Alfred in Freida. It is incomprehensible that this woman had sooo much influence in her family to make them move to Paris, stop going to church, inflict such shame and horror, and she never seems to regret anything but working for Rodin. The backdrop of late 19th century was a special treat and a bucolic life at Villanueve delightful. The suffering of this woman was difficut to watch and made me reconsider my lack of creative ability may be a blessing for a happier life. And oh yeah, bad commericial for AshleyMadison...YIKES!
Summary of Camille Claudel
International screen star Isabelle Adjani (The Story Of Adele H., Ishtar) is the creative prodigy Camille Claudel. G?(c)rard Depardieu (Green Card, Cyrano de Bergerac) is thelegendary sculptor Rodin. This is the true story of their passionate obsession with artand with each other. Both an inspiring saga of artistic vision and the haunting portrayal of a doomed romance, Camille Claudel is a beautiful and stirring cinematic masterpiece. A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of modern art, Camille Claudel was nominated for the 1989 Academy Award?(r) for Best Foreign Language Film,and Adjani was nominated for the 1989 Oscar?(r) for Best Actress for her riveting portrayalof the beautiful young woman who sacrifices her talents to flames of passion."Miss Claudel has become a master."
"She has the talent of a man."
"She's a witch."
And so Auguste Rodin and friends neatly sum up the sad trajectory of Camille Claudel's career.
We first meet the sculptor as she digs clay with bare fingers from a frozen ditch, in the winter of 1885. By the time the film leaves her, in 1913, she's an acclaimed, if socially scorned, artist who's been committed to an asylum.
In the interim, Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) falls in love with the famous, older, womanizing Rodin (G?rard Depardieu). Claudel abandons her work to assist the creatively bankrupt Rodin, filling in as his muse, assistant, and lover. When pregnancy forces Claudel to ask him to choose between her and his longtime mistress, he won't, she leaves, and their alliance ends. This proves to be the turning point for Claudel's mental health; when her affair with Rodin ends, she begins her intimacy with insanity.
As her madness blooms, so do her long-neglected sculptures, which seem to come to life in her hands and arms. Not only a potent love story, Camille Claudel is also an account of art and its wellsprings, and this is where it excels, especially when we witness Claudel's manic genius at work, driven by the necessity to externalize her emotions in the forms of her sculptures.
In the end, the viewer wonders about the causes of Claudel's madness: was it genes, or her reaction against society's mores, or the product of Rodin's persecution? Or, as one exasperated family member terms it, was it "the madness of mud"? --Stefanie Durbin
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