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Summary: I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
Review: 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 relationship
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Summary: Excellent
Review: If there's one drawback in this movie is that Adjani is so beautiful that her natural beauty becomes a focusing point. Her performance may be the best I have seen. The passion and the portrayed spirit of Camille Claudel are so vivid through Adjani's performance. A true work of art. I was not sure about buying this movie but now I am glad I have it and can watch it again.
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Summary: A Movie That Generates Heated Discussion
Review: 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.
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Summary: Adjani is one of the supreme goddess in acting and beauty!
Review: Isabelle Adjani has been blessed by the Greek Gods . She has an enormous talent , sideral beauty and radiant magnetism in screen .
She has been nominated just for two roles in which the madness has been a common denominator : The story of Adelle H and this work.
Adjani plays the role of a sculptress and the film tells about the slow process of decay and madness of this artist . Depardieu as Auguste Rodin is magnificent but she literally steals the show and really convinces us .
Consider this superb sextet : Simone Signoret (the best french actress in the XX century) , Catherine Deneuve , Isabelle Adjani , Isabelle Hupert , Natalie Baye and Fanny Ardant and you will have the complete team of french top actress in the seventies and middle of the eighties .
The film is wonderfully directed with a superb artistic direction and even best photograph .
One adittional proof the cinema is the seventh art by far .
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Summary: Camille Claudel - A Woman Is Not An Island
Review: It has been said that "man is not an island," but in a woman's case, especially in Claudel's time, this was sadly so. I use that quote as an ironic twist to Camille Claudel, who certainly did become an island in her time, but re-emerged like one of Rembrandt's classics, restored, vibrant, alive. For anyone who doubts that there is real artistic spirit and drive, for anyone who doubts the beauty of perserverance, for anyone who doubts integrity and the power of love - I recommend you not only watch this film, but read the life story of Camille Claudel. She is a flame that had been put out too soon, and a rarity that only occurs every once so often in the framework of time. I enjoyed very much Adjani's portrayal of this self-willed, determined, and yet heartbreakingly agonized woman -- and it shows us what a sacrifice she made to produce her art. Mad? Perhaps a little, but she lived and died for her art, how many people can say the same for anything at all anymore?
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Summary: A Classic, Period!
Review: One of Isabelle Adjani's best qualities is that no matter what character she plays, she's always convincing. 1988's "Camille Claudel" is probably her most passionate, convincing performance. From the film's moving start, to its tragic end, there is never a dull moment. Easily handling a full range of emotions, Adjani manages to charm us, sadden us and even frighten us. This is a long movie but never once did I tire of it or lose intrest. Before this movie, I had no idea who Camille Claudel was. After seeing it, I was moved to find out as much about her and her sculptures as I possibly could. Along with Adjani, Gerard Depardieu deserves credit for his outstanding performance as Rodin. Production values are meticulous right down to the smallest details. While several great movies come out every year, very few "classics" manage to break through. "Camille Claudel" is one of those who thank God, managed to do so.
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Summary: Sculpting a Life
Review: Prior to the 1988 release of this powerful biopic, Camille Claudel was but a footnote in history, the almost forgotten sister of the great 19th century French poet Paul Claudel. But since this movie, Paul has been relegated to being known as Camille's brother. Isabelle Adjani dominates the film in the title role as a young sculptor studying with and having a disastrous affair with the great sculptor Rodin. Gerard Depardieu delivers his usual forceful performance as Rodin, but never overshadows Adjani. The central issue of the film is the lack of credit that the woman sculptor receives because of societal prejudice. The script goes so far as to strongely imply that she was the real genius and that Rodin borrowed from her. This angle continues to make the film very popular with the female audience. Although the packaging on this video proclaims that this is "a historically accurate depiction", some skepticism is in order. I have visited the Rodin museum in Paris a number of times where sculptures by both Rodin and Claudel are on display. These works make it clear that Rodin did great things before, during, and after his affair with Claudel, whereas Claudel did great work only during her time with Rodin, and relatively mediocre work before and after. The observer is free to come to his own conclusions. In any event, the film is a well-spent two and one half hours, and the Orion video has clear yellow subtitles for those who don't know French.
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Summary: "Rodin! Ro-diiiiiiiiin!"
Review: So screams Claudel (Adjani) to attract the attention of Rodin (Depardieu) after he as abandoned her for his wife (!). This haunting film is a must-see for anyone who has been undone by love, or for anyone who has done the undoing. Claudel's spiral from artisic genius (it was Rodin who copied her magnificent and groundbreaking work) into insanity is brilliantly portrayed. This film is more than just eye candy for Adjani and Depardieu fans, it's a wonderful lesson in art history. Through it, we learn how Rodin became known as the first artist to make sculptures. Before he met the passionate Claudel, the world had only seen statues.
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Summary: Great movie! I was thinking about it for DAYS!
Review: 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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Summary: hey mister video reviewer
Review: there is no questioning about the cinematographic success of this movie..as far as what is questioned by one professional reviewer is concerned, the value of its treatment of the basic themes, art and love, thats where the movie is actually the classic its bound to become. It 'subtly' questions the possibility of creative genius, in the characters of Rodin who was compromised to become a capitalist rather than a real artist despite his talents, Camille, who is brought down by her own pride, especially where it gets into conflict with her identity as a woman, and the earnest catholic poet Paul Claudel, Camille's brother who has been overshadowed by her influence in the family, who compromises with god and lays his genius in his hands. Camille never achieves self-confidence and knowledge and ends up paranoid because her unshakable awareness of her genius is bolstered only by pride and willpower when her lover is left, while Rodin ends up a puppet of the dominant forces in society having run after fame and fortune all his life- there are hints to the purely seducive and abstract nature of Rodin's art given by Paul throughout the movie. As a woman she gets pregnant from Rodin but their marriage doesnt follow since shes too proud to let Rodin know about it...shes done with the baby but her product as an artist remain as much opaque and alien to her as the fatherless baby she was to bear. Whether this is a peculiarly female tragedy is a question the movie doesnt seem to answer as far as my viewing is concerned. But in the least it problematizes deeply the existence of the artist.
So this is not a 'shallow' move at all, and but if youre looking for a movie that goes like popcorn it may seem so to you..
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