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Release Date: 23 January, 2001 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.95! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
Camille Claudel Reviews
"Camille Claudel" a splendid film
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.
Tragic life of an artist
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.
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