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Bookmark this pageCamille Claudel (1988)
Director: Bruno Nuytten
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From Time Out Film Guide
Paris 1885: by night, a sculptress fills a suitcase with clay from a workman's trench. Such is the intense dedication of Camille Claudel (Adjani), whose desire to win favourable patronage from Rodin (Depardieu) drives her into a disastrous affair with that womanising egotist, thus alienating her family (including poet Paul). As ever in movies about artistic genius, a break-up sends Camille round the bend - a surefire guarantee of prolific productivity, the inevitable neglect of which, by a blinkered bourgeois intelligentsia, pushes her into ever more manic creativity and misery. Nuytten's film would seem far less banal if it were half the length; at almost three hours, we are simply left with trite ideas about artistic inspiration, and a glossy costumer that makes all too predictable points about the ambivalent nature of insanity, the importance of status and money in the art world, and the position of women in a male-dominated society.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Bruno Nuytten
Producer: Bernard Artigues
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Alain Cuny, Laurent Gréville, Philippe Clévenot, Katrine Boorman, Danielle Lebrun, Madeleine Robinson full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 174 mins
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