Camille Claudel
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Movie Reviews of Camille Claudel
Movie Review: POWERFUL! Adjani's performance is heart-wrenching!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Although this film is the story of an artist and does contain many scenes of art in progress, it plays more like a character study than a bioflick on Camille Claudel. It does run a bit long (a near three hours) but it is worth the time. Isabelle Adjani is masterfully brillant throughout. This is the sort of part which demands everything that an actor can give, and boy, did she deliver! If you are learning the art of acting, this can seriously be used as a textbook. Not to take anything away from Gerard Depardieu's commanding performance, but Isabelle Adjani is one of those actors that has mastered the use of body language. Her stares, breathing, flinches, smiles, all tell the story so powerfully, that this movie could have been filmed in silence. Adjani has provided with this performance, a trip through the heart and mind that is painstakingly rendered through flawless cinematography and direction. You can't ask for a better work of art from an actress and crew than this; it wouldn't be fair. Movie Review: Passionate, Creative and Tragic, A True Art Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I began watching this film on a late night of insomnia....it didn't help me to sleep and that's a good thing!Isabelle Adjani artfully plays real life French sculpturess, Camille Claudel. She displays pure emotion and passionate reactions such that she is completely believable as the tragic yet talented Claudel. Claudel becomes Auguste Rodin's assistant and eventual lover/muse. They fight and compete for fame together and seperately with Claudel always the more talented but underscored by Rodin's jealously and fierce connections to the art world. In the end Claudel succumbs to a broken and ravaged heart betrayed in many ways by her one true love, Rodin.
I recently returned from a trip to Paris and having seen first hand the sculptures created by Claudel and Rodin I am even more impressed with this tragic story of talented yet conflicted artists. To see the obvious gentleness with which Claudel can carve marble and to feel the warmth that stems from a slab of cold stone left me mesmerized by her talent. Rodin appears clumsy and inept next to her creations despite his world reknown fame. I will always wonder what a woman of her talent could have created had she been alive today and not under the influence of an egotistical maniac!
Movie Review: 'Camille' est magnifique!
Summary: 5 Stars
As a French major, this is an excellent film. The language is clear (the nudity is a little inappropriate for some ages, though). I've seen this film twice some months apart and each time it was certainly engaging.The pace was a little frustrating near the end, but considering the topic at hand (the demise of a promising artist), it is understandable. What does make an impression are the images. Many of the scenes have almost a photographic quality - very nice cinematography. The relationship between Camille and Rodin is very full of little nuances that keep the viewer engaged, too.
This is a great film for pleasure, an art classroom or a history class. Obviously, francophiles would love it, were they to see it!
Movie Review: Good Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw the movie on cable and it was a fascinating story about the sculptress Camille Claudel and her lover Renoir. She was a talented artist in the beginning with ambitions. Then she gets involved with Renoir, a womanizing artist and a married man. She forgets herself in his world and when he doesn't choose between her and his wife, she leaves feeling as if he is at fault for her waning popularity. Claudel was a talented artist of her day when women were considered second-class citizens and encouraged by her father to be the person she was. Unfortunately, she came across disappointment and mental distress when her relationship with Renoir ended. While she was his mistress, she wasn't herself, and without him, she lost her spirit. Her brother, who was considered the troublemaker, made himself a well-known person in diplomacy and literature. The movie examines the close relationship between Paul and his sister. It was sad that her relationship with her mother was never restored. She always felt she was a threat to her because of her work. Her father was supportive through and through. What disappointed him was the daughter that changed into someone else's shadow. Camille was a gifted woman of her time. Had she kept her sanity and let go of the demons, she would have maintained high status as Collette. The movie was a very interesting movie to watch.Movie Review: Isabelle is one of the finest actresses ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Adjani is able to take the tyrannical, childish Claudel and portray her with not only intrigue but passion, allowing the viewer to overlook Claudel's whistful predicament. Adjani takes the audience wholeheartedly into Claudel's mind, heart, art, and world with complete empathy. Her portrayal of the sculptress gives great meaning and understanding to the behaviors that proved to be Claude's own undoing.With Adjani depressed and laying in a flooded apartment the audience has a desire to help her, rescue her, but if it were Claudel we'd most likely keep moving because of her pitifulness. Much of that credit goes to Adjani's beauty as well, not just her talent.
Claudel was never as beautiful as Adjani, sorry, tis true, and Claudel should thank Adjani for using her beauty to highlight her life and draw attention to her works so that they could possibly one day finally be included in Art History texts properly. Because of this film we are able to begin to scratch the surface of the magnitude of the contribution of Claudel's sculptures in relation to the Impressionistic era as a whole. Although dead, she is clearly nudging her way into the art timeline and taking her rightful post.
Good French film, a must have for art history buffs and small film lovers.