Rating  - Fantastic...
This is an amazing move. Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani turn our tour de force performances. Depardieu as the talented if not callus Rodin who becomes the rock that Adjani as Camille breaks herself against. Wonderful for two different reasons this movie shows us first, the limited society that women (even women with talent) are forced to inhabit, and second how destructive love can be when one loves more than the other.
Rating - The manic genius of Camille Claudel
This is one of my favorite French films. I watch it at least once a year. Based on the book by Reine-Marie Paris, the grand-daughter of Camille's brother, the poet and diplomat Paul Claudel, and co-produced by Isabelle Adjani, the 1988 film examines the life of French sculptor, Camille Claudel (1864-1943). Adjani brings a stunning performance to the film as Claudel, and Gérard Depardieu provides a fine performance as Auguste Rodin. Both are convincing in their roles. In 1883, Claudel met Rodin, and around 1884 she began working in Rodin's workshop in Paris. She became Rodin's muse, his model, his confidante and mistress. However, Rodin was reluctant to end his 20-year relationship with Rose Beuret (played by Daniele Lebrun). Claudel's affair with Rodin alienated her family, so she left the family house and soon fell into a chronic depression. Around 1905 Claudel became mentally unhinged, destroying much of her work, acting paranoid, and accusing Rodin of stealing her ideas and of plotting her death. On March 10, 1913, Claudele was admitted to the psychiatric hospital of Ville-Évrard in Neuilly-sur-Marnedied by her brother Paul, and died thirty years later on October 19, 1943. Despite her madness, Claudel is depicted in this film as a fiercely independent woman and passionate artist, determined to live her life on her own terms, and to create sculptures out of clay in an artistic profession dominated by male sculptors. The last time I was in Paris, much of Claudel's surviving work was on exhibit at the Rodin Museum.
G. Merritt
Rating  - Camille Claudel
Movie has English subtitles. Well acted with good scenery but the life of Camille Claudel is essentially a depressing one and the movie portrays this fairly accurately.
Rating - Camille Caudel
Perhaps the only sculpture movie I ever saw. Very French. She finally looses her mind at the end. Much angst.
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