Camille Claudel
starring: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill, Alain Cuny, Madeleine Robinson
directed by: Bruno Nuytten
directed by: Bruno Nuytten
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792848417
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792848411
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Running Time: 159 minutes
Sales Rank: 6860
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 21, 1989
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International screen star Isabelle Adjani (The Story Of Adele H., Ishtar) is the creative prodigy Camille Claudel. GÃ(c)rard Depardieu (Green Card, Cyrano de Bergerac) is thelegendary sculptor Rodin. This is the true story of their passionate obsession with artand with each other. Both an inspiring saga of artistic vision and the haunting portrayal of a doomed romance, Camille Claudel is a beautiful and stirring cinematic masterpiece. A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of modern art, Camille Claudel was nominated for the 1989 Academy AwardÂ(r) for Best Foreign Language Film,and Adjani was nominated for the 1989 OscarÂ(r) for Best Actress for her riveting portrayalof the beautiful young woman who sacrifices her talents to flames of passion.
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'Miss Claudel has become a master.'
'She has the talent of a man.'
'She's a witch.'
And so Auguste Rodin and friends neatly sum up the sad trajectory of Camille Claudel's career.
We first meet the sculptor as she digs clay with bare fingers from a frozen ditch, in the winter of 1885. By the time the film leaves her, in 1913, she's an acclaimed, if socially scorned, artist who's been committed to an asylum.
In the interim, Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) falls in love with the famous, older, womanizing Rodin (Gérard Depardieu). Claudel abandons her work to assist the creatively bankrupt Rodin, filling in as his muse, assistant, and lover. When pregnancy forces Claudel to ask him to choose between her and his longtime mistress, he won't, she leaves, and their alliance ends. This proves to be the turning point for Claudel's mental health; when her affair with Rodin ends, she begins her intimacy with insanity.
As her madness blooms, so do her long-neglected sculptures, which seem to come to life in her hands and arms. Not only a potent love story, Camille Claudel is also an account of art and its wellsprings, and this is where it excels, especially when we witness Claudel's manic genius at work, driven by the necessity to externalize her emotions in the forms of her sculptures.
In the end, the viewer wonders about the causes of Claudel's madness: was it genes, or her reaction against society's mores, or the product of Rodin's persecution? Or, as one exasperated family member terms it, was it 'the madness of mud'? --Stefanie Durbin
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- A tragic fall for a talented young artistCamille Claudel was the young talented studio assistant to Auguste Rodin who became his muse and lover ... Read More
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- WARNING: DVD IS CUT BY 13 MINUTES!This USA butchered DVD release has 13 minutes cut from it, excluding major plot points, whole sequences, ... Read More
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- a fascinating woman and artist ... broken under a world which did respectively she could not open upA life in-between mania and raging passion
This touching movie - shot in following the biography written ... Read More
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- Great story...slow moving...This movie is based on the life of Camille Claudel (1864-1943) who was a beautiful and talented French sculptor. ... Read More
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- Camille Claudel - a must seeThe story of Camille Claudel is a 'must see' for anyone interested in the role of women in the 19th century who are ... Read More
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