Camille Claudel
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Movie Review: Camille Claudel
Summary: 5 Stars
First saw this film in 1989 when it came out. Purchased this copy after the Detroit Institute of Arts Claudel/Rodin exhibit. Beautifully filmed. Poignant portrayal of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel's tumultuous relationship as artist and protege. Adjani and Depardieu, as well as everyone else give powerful performances. Film dwells more on the sensuality and subsequent madness of the relationship and doesn't focus on the fact that they eventually considered themselves equals in their art, how strongly they influenced each other and how much they actually worked together. Still a good buy and well worth multiple viewings.Movie Review: "Camille Claudel" a splendid film
Summary: 5 Stars
This study of the intertwined lives of the sculptor Rodin and the artist who loved him with a fatal passion is quite extraordinary. Long a student of modern art, I learned a great deal from this film that had been unknown to me before. Furthermore the film is compelling as a work of art itself, and enormously important to the on-going study of women artists.
This is a work all admirers of modern art should view.
Movie Review: The tragedy of madness
Summary: 4 Stars
Camille Claudel was a sculptor in a time when women were discouraged from art - and especially from that most muscular of arts, sculpture. Such was her genius, though, that she was accepted as Rodin's student. He supported her career, both as his assitant and as an artist in her own right. Some people say that her skill outstripped even his.
Why, then, is her work so little known today? Certainly not because it's appeal faded with time. It still has all the power to move a viewer that it ever did. The reason is probably that there was so very little of her work, and even less extant today. Her career lasted only a few of her adult years. Illness of mind drove her from the people and venues that supported her, and drove her to destroy much of her own work. In the end, illness left her unable even to care for herself. She was hospitalized in 1913, and died in 1943 without regaining her sanity, her freedom, or her career.
This lovely movie documents her life up to 1913. It shows her early promise, her rise to success, and her collapse into incapacity. The basic historical facts, to the best of my knowledge, are sound, but may have been stretched in a few places. Her relationship with Rodin is shown, but may not have been given the emphasis it warranted. Her removal to the hospital for the insane is shown, too, but may not have been the peaceable affair displayed here. No matter. Claudel the artist deserves the attention, and Claudel the woman leaves us asking what wonders that illness stole from her and from history.
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Movie Review: Awe-Struck
Summary: 5 Stars
Camille Claudel, a talented and gifted artist, ends up studying under Rodin. Rodin, because of his name back then, has his way with Camille (as it is implied with many other mistresses as well). He leaves Camille for his wife. Camille is ruined. What follows is her gut-wrenching attempt to continue with her work admist the shame she has brought upon herself and her family. Her ultimate ruin is left to her brother to carry out.Movie Review: Tragic life of an artist
Summary: 4 Stars
Biopic of the French scuptress (played by Isabelle Adjani) who showed great promise as a young woman and then came under the influence of Rodin (she became his lover) and went mad. She is contrasted with her brother Paul, who is weak and afraid of life's risks, while she is strong, independent, and willful; he goes on to success while she achieves nothing but madness. Rodin uses her, emotionally and physically, and when she becomes pregnant by him and wants him to marry her, he refuses (he's actually living with another woman). She has an abortion, attempts again to get Rodin to marry her, fails at this - and then slips into the madness of paranoia. She continues to sculpt, has one showing, but it's not a success and she goes off the deep end. She spends the last 30 years of her life in an asylum. The movie is good, mainly because the script is excellent; so is the period photography. At times it goes soft, though, especially in some of the scenes with Rodin (played well by Gerard Depardieu) where a knockout punches should have been delivered. Interesting, however, and well worth a watch.