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: Great movie! I was thinking about it for DAYS!
Summary: 5 Stars
The true story about the French sculptor, Camille Claudel.It is about how she became a sculptor in the late 1800s in France. She met August Rodin and began a very long affair. Their relationship ends and how her life turns down a completely different path.
This movie was so good, that I had to read the book from which this movie was based on.
Isabelle Adjani plays an excellent Camille Claudel! As does Gerard Depardieu in the role of Auguste Rodin.
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Movie Review: A Movie That Generates Heated Discussion
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to get into an engrossing conversation, watch this movie with friends or lend it to them. There are so many heated issues lurking here. How many women artists, like Claudel, were exploited by the only "acceptable" artists of prior centuries, namely men? For Rodin clearly steals from Claudel and no one even disputes it. Next, what drove Claudel to madness and did her edge-of-breakdown personality work for her in her art work? It is quite possible that "made" her art more than any other factor. No one will ever know. Third, what would the effects of modern modern medicine have on Claudel if she were an artist among us now? Would she still go mad or would modern drugs save her? Would she even take modern drugs since many of today's artists will not take them, believing they will be robbed of their creativity. Finally, what did she really look like because no one could possibly look as good as Isabelle Adjani who plays her, right? I looked at her photos on the web and suprisingly found her to be an equally gorgeous woman when in her prime. I guarantee that you won't be able to shut up once you get going on discussing "Camille Claudel." If you are a woman artist, prepare to be up all night.Movie Review: Beautiful, faithful film...
Summary: 5 Stars
A few years ago, on a beautiful sunny March day, I visited the house and grounds of the Rodin museum, formerly the home of Auguste Rodin. The museum sits very near a hospital Napoleon commissioned and is in a central tourist area, but it was not overrun with tourists the day I visited. The weather was so nice, I decided to have lunch in the pavillion on the grounds and eventually spent half a day wondering around the various scuptures situated indoors and outside. The 'Thinker' sat contemplating a nearby bush while a little bird landed on his shoulder, and Balzac looked down in triump from his pedestal. But, inside the house, I found a little room dedicated to the work of Camille Claudel, and here I paused the longest. It struck me then that while Rodin dealt with the external, Claudel dealt with the internal--the soul. I'm a small fan of sculpture, but the marble pieces Claudel worked with her hands are amazing. "Life-like" does not say enough. One piece, a marble bust of a child's head and shoulders took my breath away. I kept waiting for the child to breathe. I checked to see if she was breathing. The only pieces I have seen that are comparable were executed by Micheangelo.
The film CAMILLE CLAUDEL is worthy of the heroine and her sad story. Rodin treated her badly, if for no other reason than he had no right to become sexually involved with her when she was his employee and he was a married man. Today he would be locked up for sexual harrassment, and Claudel would not spend most of her life locked up because she became "hysterical" after he dumped her.
But, Rodin's greatest sin may have been that he became involved with Claudel because he recognized her genius and he wanted to exploit it. Although Rodin certainly had some interesting ideas, which he managed to execute in a prolific way (the Rodin house shows a continuous and ridiculous film of Rodin "creating" a sculpture), I don't think he was terribly innovative. In fact, if the "Thinker" had not been made into book ends, most people would probably not know who Rodin was.
Isabel Adjani plays Claudel. She is perfectly cast as Camille, and her performance is as stunning as it was in Queen Margo. Adjani is one of France's best living actresses--in fact, I think she is the best. Gerhard Depardieu plays Rodin, and he well cast as the large, beefy, inarticulate, egocentric artist. In fact, he looks exactly like the man in the little film I saw in Paris, just as Adjani looks like the Claudel from her portraits.
The film was shot in Paris, and much of the footage taken at the Rodin museum, a Chateau constructed by a 18th Century Aristocrat who died at the hands of Madame Guilliotine. Buy the film and then visit the Rodin museum in Paris to see Claudel's work.
Movie Review: portrait of the artist as young woman
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a really stirring portrayal of an underappreciated French sculptress named Camille Claudel. This student of Rodin had a passion and brilliance all her own. This film provides a good overview of her development as an artist and her relationship with August Rodin. Rodin is flawlessly portrayed by Gerald Depardieu. Camille Claudel is played by the hauntingly beautiful Isabelle Adjani. Their relationship transcends teacher-student and they become lovers. This, of course, is scandalous even by French standards. The film tends to be sympathetic (and justly so) to Claudel as she struggles to emerge with her own artistic identity and balance her love for an increasingly jealous Rodin. It is tragic to view the obstacles faced by this gifted young woman but it is also inspiring that she continued to follow the muse in spite of any obstacle.