Camille Claudel
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Movie Reviews of Camille Claudel
Movie Review: I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I went into this movie not expecting to like it as much as I did, but it was fantastic. The acting is incredible and the story is fascinating - this movie will stay with you for a long time. I personally was so moved that I went out and read several books on Rodin and Camille Claudel and find out as much as I could about them and their relationshipMovie Review: Camille Claudel
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW ! I love love love this film !!! Such a strong story to begin with and then top it off with two brilliant French actors and a true story and you have a phenominal masterpiece ! The story of Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin is not just told in this film ..it is felt !!Movie Review: Camille Claudel the movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Great Artsy passionate story of the lady behind Rodin, an equally good sculptor, who positively influenced the art and productiviity of one of the world's best known sculptors.Movie Review: Camille Caudel
Summary: 5 Stars
Perhaps the only sculpture movie I ever saw. Very French. She finally looses her mind at the end. Much angst.Movie Review: A tragic fall for a talented young artist
Summary: 4 Stars
Camille Claudel was the young talented studio assistant to Auguste Rodin who became his muse and lover at a point in his career when he was a commercial success but had become devoid of inspiration. When he refused to leave his common-law wife of many years to marry Camille, she had an abortion and then gradually sunk into paranoid schizophrenia. This is the basic story. However the subtle manner in which the story is told and the unresolved issues in the life of Claudel elevate the film into a work of art.
The film explores the artistic muse and their relationship with the artist. Camille was a muse in that her images were fresh and vibrant which inspired Rodin. She was also a willful and socially disruptive iconoclastic young women and Rodin is attracted to her outbursts of emotion. He is twice her age and becomes her lover even though he has a common-law wife that he has no intention of leaving. Their collaborations on his sculptures inspired some of his best work. Yet her father wisely knew that she was losing herself in Rodin, putting her inspiration into his products, elevating his career and not her own. It is the nature of the artist to draw from all experiences and resources around him/her for the benefit of their art. Picasso's paintings when he is in love and inspired by a woman are very different from when he is rejecting the woman and he paints her as a monster. The relationship between Rodin and Claudel somewhat reminded me of the relationship between Francis Bacon and George Dyer in the film, Love is the Devil. Once Dyer reached the point where he no longer inspired Bacon and was in fact a liability due to alcoholism and addiction and mental illness, then Bacon withdraws in much the way Rodin withdraws from Claudel as she becomes increasingly disturbed.
The film is very beautiful to watch. The scenes of Paris and the countryside around the city, as well as the museums and exhibition halls in Paris are very beautiful and grand. The acting is superb with Isabelle Adjani and Gerard Depardieu dominating every scene. Adjani has the ability to play highly disturbed women to perfection. She is in virtually every scene in the film. It is virtually impossible not to watch her when she is on the screen.