⛅ Camille Claudel Film Streaming Isabelle Adjani

10/10 Extremely underrated. Adjani's performance is epic! This film is beyond beautiful and beyond heartbreaking. After 19 years, it still tears the heart right out of me. I first saw "Camille Claudel" while it was on it's Oscar campaign in 1990 for "Best Foreign Film" and "Best Actress - Isabelle Adjani". I hadn't really begun to appreciate foreign film yet so I had no idea what to expect. What I saw was an angel beyond description giving one of the greatest acting performances I had EVER seen, still to this day. This film is heart-wrenching in it's beauty and romantic tragedy. In fact it makes art of it. I went back to the theater to watch it six times, I even dragged friends along. Yes the film was brilliant, but what I went back to see was perhaps the most beautiful woman I've ever seen on the big screen. Isabelle Adjani's beauty in this film is breath-taking and her performance is one of the most intense and deeply moving in history. I have this film on VHS and DVD. I still love to watch it. 19 out of 21 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink Darkness and Light This film is about the tragic failure of a genius. She fails not so much because of her tendency to make fatal mistakes but because of the shape those mistakes took in her mind. This, even as lesser personages prospered Camille's brother Paul, the famous Catholic poet and diplomat because they were not adverse to espousing convenient "beliefs" for the sake of earthly success. Many viewers will feel a strong affinity with Camille, not because they consider themselves geniuses but rather for the interior world she constructed that, without religion, gave the exterior world meaning. I say she was without religion, but in fact sculpture was her religion-at least until her final failure to gain the respect and patronage of capricious buyers. It was then that her religion her meaningful myth took the form of a conspiracy delusion. Powerful people, she thought mostly, the sculptor Rodin, who had been her lover, were out to get her, thwarting her every we experience here is a thoughtful, scary exploration of the darkness that is a paradoxical part of all brilliance. 16 out of 22 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 10/10 one of the most brilliant acting in a movie How the american academy award could have forgotten one of the best performance of an actress ? it's a total mystery! The talent of Isabelle ADJANI is not at all recognized as it deserves. She's absolutely poignant in this part, from the young Camille to the crackin'up mature sculptor falling in despair and madness. The scene where Rodin touch her art in the dark and leads him to a scene where their respective egos fight each other, discovering the deep scars let by their devastating passion is an highlight of acting. At his level, it can be compared to "sunset boulevard" or "a streetcar named Desire". 15 out of 19 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 4/10 Read a book; go for a walk While the design and locations and photography are strong assets in this film; it is a turgid and melodramatic affair which demonstrates the limits of cinema to convey case is the use of the soundtrack music a mix of Gustav Mahler and Andrew Lloyd-Webber that plays constantly and loudly, and would have made Max Steiner grimace at its over use as it instructs the audience how difficult; how ecstatic; how tortured it is to be an artist. And then it really counts the story elides the details at the heightened and kitsch exploitation of emotions was once well ridiculed by Peter Ackroyd about a Yukio Mishima book This is not writing, this is Barbara Cartland. Precisely the same critique can be made of this film a deceptive, mawkish vanity project. 6 out of 8 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink Seeing What Is Not There An exhibit of Rodin's sculptures was circling the Western United States a few years back. In any gallery in which they were exhibited they snapped heads; there are few figures that speak with such authority or superiority, mute testimony, like the Easter Island figures, to as much effort and skill. And so the movie `Camille Claudel', in like fashion, snaps heads in its understated power and commitment to craft. Like Ansel Adams, Rodin stretched nature beyond what was possible they both showed us something that was not there and in the rendering made representations so striking they had no precedent and thus set the bar higher for subsequent generations of artists. As history played out, the far less well known sculptor Camille Claudel made substantial contributions but her tie to Rodin and eventually her personal decline for a period in the late nineteenth century is the focus in this instance. In truth, her story demanded to be filmed; she stands a remarkable artist and most importantly the passion, talent and influence inarguably on Rodin she possessed went well beyond the `colorful' label oft attached to the gifted. Historically, this film is probably not a bad representation of how events turned in her life. There are many issues and turns, and years for that matter, the details of which remain unclear to this day. But in its entirety this is a marvelous interpretation of the record. And without doubt Isabelle Adjani was the right actor for the job. Stunningly beautiful, there are few women in history as arresting as Isabelle is; certainly Camille was not as lovely, but the resemblance is darned good as compared to actors chosen to portray historical figures in most movies based on true events and the people that were part of them. That Adjani brings some of the passion is certain. After all, bizarre, or at least socially unacceptable, behavior resulted in her eventual incarceration, so we know she was a handful. Many of the key points of her upbringing are addressed; her father's stern and inconsistent yet lovingly supportive position in her life this is more forcefully impressed on us as the years progress; her mother's complete non-support and dismissal of all that Camille does; her relationship with her less understanding and conflicted brother. But it is the period when she meets and falls for Rodin and he with her and their consequent tumultuous affair runs its course that is actually the focus of the film. Gérard Depardieu's contribution as Rodin is probably the best work he has done. He looks Rodin was 40 when he met the 21 year old Camille very much as Rodin did in this period of his life. His love for his work, Camille and promoting his own career are his passions. We are lead through the minefield of his own making his inability to get off a dime and marry Camille is their eventual downfall and we are not totally sympathetic to his behavior. But this is the stuff of real life; as Seneca said, all art is but imitation of nature and both his and her own work convey their conflicted convictions. The musical score haunts us, as it should, right from the opening of the film. Almost never detracting, it instead correctly underscores certain points in the narrative; but it is the opening where we see Camille scooping clay from beneath a Parisian street and this is a well-crafted sequence where we feel the upsurge of powerful currents operating. The music heightens our interest as we determine exactly what we are seeing. Other nice touches in the film include an occasion where Camille and Rodin together study a model on a turntable, spinning the model about as metaphor for the emotional maelstrom gathering momentum. We also see a great moment when Rodin is caressing Camille's face, intercut with shots of him working clay into an as yet unidentifiable sculpture. What follows the breakup of Camille and Rodin is essentially a retrospective of the downslide of a remarkable talent. The story of Claudel's own diminishing output of work and the steady erosion of her inability to cope with reality is frightening in its telling. At a meeting with Rodin some time after they have parted company she remarks that she has changed, and offers that `Nothing that's monstrous is foreign to me'. And so she truly and sadly withdraws into a world of her own making. Rating Four Stars. 12 out of 19 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 7/10 Nice Face, Nice Sculptures! There's some nice photography in here, which is what helped me get through this long 159 minutes soap opera-type story about the girlfriend the title name, played by Isabelle Adjani of the famous sculptor Rodin Gerard Depardieu. There are a lot of closeups of Adjani which was fine with me as I never get tired of seeing her looks. "Camille" also was a sculptor but when the romance with Rodin went sour, she went literally crazy. This movie details that addition to the cinematography, you get to see some great sculptures - really good pieces of work. I just wish they had shown how the artists accomplished these pieces. Since they are just actors, all it did was show the two leads chipping away chunks of clay, never showing any detail least, the film made me appreciate the art form more. 13 out of 27 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 8/10 well made, not always "fun" to watch Warning Spoilers This is a very serious drama about the life of a sculptress who eventually went mad. I think it's rather interesting that Isabelle Adjani was chosen for the role, as a decade earlier she played the obsessed daughter of Victor Hugo who also was eventually institutionalized. BOTH characters were based on real women, both lived around the same time period, both were French, both suffered the same fate and both completely lost contact with reality and their personalities disintegrated in the the case of this movie, Camille suffers from Paranoid Schizophrenia with signs of Disorganized Schizophrenia as well, as her problems in life all are the "result of August Rodin and people that work for him to help him destroy her career". While it is obvious from the movie that Rodin was a slug and mistreated her because he was a narcissistic, beyond sleeping with her and casting her aside, there was no plot by him to ruin her career. But, unfortunately Camille created an involved delusion that this was so-blaming her failures on him and not the fact that she was erratic and acted "crazy" living in filth, having the entire first floor of her home flooded and doing nothing about it, etc.. I liked how Adjani handled this but I was especially impressed by the makeup people who made her look very haggard and old-she looked the is NOT a "feel good movie" by any stretch of the imagination. However, it is well-made and compelling and well worth seeing and a good study of mental TO PARENTS-the film has quite a bit of nudity. While it is NOT gratuitous at all after all, sculpting often requires nude models, this film would probably be best seen by adults. 4 out of 7 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 9/10 Uncommon Clay Warning Spoilers Opinion - on this board - appears to be divided on this one and I find myself on the side of the boosters. This movie is nothing if not sumptuous, crammed with images and imagery that fill the screen and spill over the sides - not for nothing did Nyuttens photograph Manon des Sources among others - so that decent acting and a workable plot would almost be a bonus. In fact the film has it all; an interesting and little explored background sculpting a story of two real artists who were active almost, if not quite, within living memory who are portrayed by two exceptional actors - Adjani and Depardieu teamed up again a couple of years ago in another 'period' story, Bon Voyage - who are able to extract the last nuance out of their characters. Rumour has it that it was Adjani who originated the project and even if her only object was to provide a meaty role for her herself she is to be applauded for doing so. Whoever and however this project was originated and brought to fruition it was a great idea which has been magnificently realized. 3 out of 4 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 9/10 Camille Claudel is an Excellent Film This is an excellent film and I highly recommend it. The imagery and soundtrack is lush, and the story focuses intensely on Camille's perfectionism and fortitude, all the while depicting her descent into madness, although some claim she wasn't mad, merely a woman ahead of her time, and thus what I have read of various biographies of Camille Claudel, I understand that she was a woman ahead of her time; she scorned the bourgeois, just as many artists, writer, and musicians did - in the same way that modern artists scorn the common, small-minded, and narrow society read Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf for a good understanding of the artist's situation in society.Following the pattern of Vincent van Gogh and Franz Schubert, Camille Claudel was not a great "promoter" of her works, and, to make things worse, the bourgeois society, just like today, failed to understand her art again, like the plight of Vincent van Gogh and many others.At her core, Camille Claudel was a true rebel, not because she wanted to be, but because she had to. Camille Claudel was a true artist, in the very deepest sense. 11 out of 14 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink Alain Cuny Warning Spoilers I wonder how is it possible that, since so many of the comments deal with the level of acting in this film, no one pays tribute to Alain Cuny portraying Camille Claudel's father. His presence is, to say the least, commanding. Watch the scene, when Rodin visits the family at their cottage, where the two lovers half-hidden behind curtains indulge in their lust in the front of the tableau, while father Claudel slaps his son at the background. This is crucial, for two reasons it displays that the actors here are working as an ensemble, and that the steeling and always, thoughtfully, underplayed tension between father and son, cuttingly explain Laurent Grevill's portrait of Paul Claudel as a believer's thrust undercut by a profoundly melancholic repression and the guilt of the witness who spills into being an onlooker. This is, perhaps, the grimmest intuition the film offers us in terms of the artist's relation to his place in this is brought to sublime heights when Alain Cuny recites some verses of Paul Claudel not one of the film's tensions is left out and, yet, the instance breaks out of its context. This is a masterclass of acting in a nutshell. 2 out of 2 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink hspm13 December 2004 This is one of the films I actually would give more than 10 points ! Judging from other comments, it seems that people either love this film very much, or they hate it. I was particularly impressed by Isabelle Adjani's performance as an artist and lover of Rodin who changed between devotion and obsession. Until I saw that film I had the impression that her IA's most important task in films was to look good. Admittedly, I did not know that many films with her in it. And she was, and is, pretty good at fulfilling that task. Her multi-faceted role as Camille Claudel was truly spectacular, considerably better than that of her colleague Gérard Depardieu who, nevertheless, was quite impressive as Rodin. 10 out of 14 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 10/10 Biography of a female artist... And rarely shown on US television, I recently caught this on Ovation channel; luckily I have Adjani is wonderful as tragic Camille Claudel, apprentice to narcissistic sculptor Auguste Rodin, who is at the nadir of his profession when he meets Claudel. Claudel is at first naive and young, falling for Rodin and his grandiosity, he declares her work genius, but gradually undermines her spirit and mental health. We see a foreshadowing of his envy when he first meets Claudel, and comments that at least she still has a passion for her art, which he has lost long photography of the stark and cold Paris studio in February is haunting, we feel the cold as Claudel sets up her clay in the crumbling white studio, with no heat or fire. Paris is freezing in family denigrates her ambition, except for her brother who empathizes but cannot really help an aspiring female artist unheard of, and certainly a bane to Rodin's ego.Eventually her unraveling begins, as she feels Rodin is conspiring her downfall; Claudel had suffered a form of paranoid schizophrenia, interesting that as a female artist she garners less sympathetic reviews than the ego-maniacal Picasso or misogynistic Man this film is a do not miss which deserves 10/10 for tackling a difficult and painful subject some would rather turn a blind eye toward women artists in history. 3 out of 4 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 7/10 compelling performances It's 1885. Camille Claudel Isabelle Adjani is a French sculptor and sister of writer Paul Claudel. Famed sculptor Auguste Rodin Gérard Depardieu is taken with her work and hires her as an assistant. She becomes both his mistress and protégé. There is prejudice against woman sculptors. The complicated relationship and professional difficulties cause Camille to descend into Adjani is terrific. Her performance is compelling and so is Depardieu. I really like the actors doing their sculpting. I like the obsessive nature of the art work. The plot lacks a certain intensity. It would be helpful to foreshadow her madness earlier in the movie or else the romance caused her mental issues. That's very old fashion melodrama. The running time is also a bit long at almost three hours. 1 out of 1 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 9/10 A Celebration Of A Mourning While and after seeing Camille Claudel, one wonders if one should celebrate the artist that could have been, or rather mourn the moronic hypocrites populating her world. A world whose Marquesean death was everyone played by the supporting cast displayed or tried to hide how acutely and incurably they were suffering with diseases, physical and mental. With the sole and occasional exception of her father, everyone else treated the artist in a less than human manner. Despot mother, Hypocrite brother, Deceitful love! What real treasures had this Genius woman of her times to cope with! To top it all she happened to be living in such a dysfunctional society which years later, a great filmmaker and artist of the same nation, Jean Renoir, was to label as "corrupt to the core". Amen to Renoir. This film like most any other film depicting the real dilemma of a society, makes one pay an additional salute to his Le Regle Du Ju. 4 out of 6 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 8/10 Watch at your own peril! A *very* powerful film about a woman and her life. Acting and setup is so good that it can leave permanent scars on your psyche. Hitchcock can scare for a few minutes, while this movie can scare you for life. Do not watch while depressed. I give it a minimum of 8 out of 10. Wonderful job. 6 out of 9 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 8/10 dynamic period piece with a strong lead performance The familiar line dividing creativity and madness narrows and disappears in this downbeat but dramatic biography of the 19th century sculptress, who after meeting Auguste Rodin went from apprentice to mistress to madwoman, driven to the asylum and professional obscurity by her inability to escape from under the shadow of her celebrated lover. Isabelle Adjani gives the title character a headstrong, stubborn vitality that turns electrifying as she loses her sanity; in contrast, Rodin pronounced by an associate "the biggest lecher since Victor Hugo" fades into the background clay, and not even the reliable Gerard Depardieu can flesh out the underwritten role. The film is beautifully produced, and even at such a punishing length almost two and a half hours the pace never flags. It moves twice as quickly as any film half its length, using a brisk, hopscotch style that almost seems rushed trying to get all the facts in. 1 out of 1 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink In the Hole Warning Spoilers Spoilers the life it depicts, this has flashes of brilliance but is overall a failure. On the plus side, we have an appealing enough actress who has what it takes to convince her she would be desirable to Rodin. But there is no conveyance of the realities and burdens of talent, no glimpses into the mind of madness and creative genius. There is a nice, somewhat sculptural framing, beginning with the `stealing' clay from a workmens' ditch and hen going to incestual, erotic visual poetry. This is recalled near the end with her similarly burying her in between is rather dull, predictable march through some events. What a great film this could have Evaluation - 2 of 3 Has some interesting elements. 3 out of 8 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 9/10 superb acting, brilliant cinematography sem-224 February 2001 This is the film that shows that French cinema is still the best in the world. Adjani's acting is mesmerizing, cinematographer uses his camera with such an ease that Hollywood would never match. While watching the film, I lost sense of time... I didn't expect much from this movie after reading complaints that it's too long. What a pleasant surprise! Don't listen to anybody if you like the cinema, this film will impress you, if you think that Titanic is the best romantic movie ever made - then you might never get it... 4 out of 7 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 9/10 Camille stays a mystery You might want to ask yourself what is wrong with a particular society. There are several ways to approach that question one of which is observing scars society together with culture inflicts on you and other people. One major difficulty with that approach is distinguishing between ones' emotional problems and real cultural problems. That difficulty is what we are faced with when watching Camille brilliant young sculptress starts going mad after going through a tragic romantic experience. We see so many talent and potential wasted at such an early age in such a sad way. Immediately we question is there always a simple and reliable explanation for such a tragic failure. Her behavior inflicts her family and almost everybody around her. She becomes obsessed with sculpting; what has now become her religion. She's tormented by hypocrisy of French bourgeois. We see many factors being taken into account in re-telling her story - something we see very rarely in American to the question. She undoubtedly is going mad but the reason behind it stays mystery for us. Not only for us but her family as well. Camille doesn't even realize how mistaken she is and she is eventually hospitalized for the rest of her life. That's the genius behind this biographical drama nobody knows what is happening inside Camille's heart. Her genius and fragility cannot be analyzed; she's taken them into her grave. Nevertheless we may conjecture about it and at best learn a thing or obvious that playing this role is delicate. Isabelle Adjani is absolutely gorgeous here; one of the most beautiful female characters ever - that is until she goes demented. She was able to appear as an undivided personality in a sense that her happiness and failures are not disconnected from each other but form an unanimous whole. Only Ellen Burstyn's role in Requiem for a Dream is this impressive although she takes much less screen time. Other members of the cast have been very successful in communicating complex emotions always held that atmosphere and spirit is what makes a movie memorable and convincing. Seeing this drama was for me more than a movie experience - it gave me a deeper insight about French esprit libre. I strongly recommend this movie to all of you who are looking for a movie not made for pure fun but for reflection. 1 out of 1 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink 5/10 Just expensive melodrama ..... What is it about French *EPICS* that makes them so dreary? 'Camille Claudel' suffers from the same intrinsic problems as its predecessors 'Entre Nous' comes to mind. Too much style ... not enough substance. Make no mistake folks ... this is a very lavish read expensive production. Perhaps that is the problem. Too much time and money spent on production design and cinematography and not enough time on script development. This is supposed to be a character driven piece yet somehow the 'story' just gets lost in all that grandeur. It's only during the last 3rd of the film do we we actually get to see any sort of 'performance' from Isabelle Adjani. For the rest, both her and Depardieu are minnows lost at sea in a maze of bloated film sets awash with moody .. the cinematography IS breathtaking so kudos to Pierre Lhomme. I beg to differ with other reviewers about the musical score tho. It's one of the worst i have endured in recent times. More often than not it seems to be totally out of place and out of context to the scene we are witnessing ... almost as if it had been scored without actually *seeing* the cant help but feel how this story would have been handled by a director with some understanding of the nature of art, but more importantly ... the ARTIST. Those having seen Jacques Rivette's 'La Belle Noiseuse' will understand. And for those interested in Depardieu driven historical pieces, seek out the hard to find Le Colonel Chabert. He's performance in that film is is an overly melodramatic film and a sad waste of money. They could have made 3 films for what this one must have cost. Not recommended. 6 out of 15 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink

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