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Camille Claudel 1915

  • 2013
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  • 1h 35m
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6.5/10
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Juliette Binoche in Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
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Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit fro... Read allWinter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

  • Director
    • Bruno Dumont
  • Writers
    • Paul Claudel
    • Camille Claudel
    • Bruno Dumont
  • Stars
    • Juliette Binoche
    • Jean-Luc Vincent
    • Jessica Errero
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    • Director
      • Bruno Dumont
    • Writers
      • Paul Claudel
      • Camille Claudel
      • Bruno Dumont
    • Stars
      • Juliette Binoche
      • Jean-Luc Vincent
      • Jessica Errero
    • 14User reviews
    • 95Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche
    • Camille Claudel
    Jean-Luc Vincent
    Jean-Luc Vincent
    • Paul Claudel
    Jessica Errero
    • Nursing Home Resident
    • (as Jessica Herrero)
    Claire Peyrade
    • Pensionnaire bain
    Sandra Rivera
    • Soeur Sandra
    Christiane Blum
    • Nursing Home Resident
    Florence Philippe
    • Soeur Florence
    Nicole Faurite
    • Soeur Nicole
    Robert Leroy
    Robert Leroy
    • Le médecin
    Emmanuel Kauffman
    Emmanuel Kauffman
    • Le prêtre
    Armelle Leroy-Rolland
    • La jeune soeur novice
    Marion Keller
    • Mlle Blanc
    Eric Jacoulet
    • L'interne
    Alexandra Lucas
    • Nursing Home Resident
    Myriam Laloum
    • Nursing Home Resident
    Christelle Petit
    • Soeur Christelle
    Régine Gayte
    • Soeur Régine
    Daniele
    • Nursing Home Resident
    • Director
      • Bruno Dumont
    • Writers
      • Paul Claudel
      • Camille Claudel
      • Bruno Dumont
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    3tao902

    Not as fascinating as it should be.

    Camille Claudel was a successful artist who had an affair with Rodin. She had mental health problems and was placed in an asylum by her family. Whether this was intended to resolve Camille's problem or remove Camille as a problem is left for debate.

    The film tells the story of her life in the asylum, her desire to leave and her unhappiness. We gain an insight into the artist's mind and the world of the asylum. Juliet Binoche's acting is excellent and the use of patients and staff from an asylum works well although is potentially controversial.

    However, the film is slow and is too long for the little is actually revealed in 95 minutes of screen time. More back story and context is needed to provide reasons for sympathising with the main character and sticking with the film.
    8franked18

    Uncomfortable but gratifying watch

    I wanted to leave this screening about halfway through, but not because it was a terrible film. On the contrary, it was because Dumont's impeccably observed production evokes the same sense of claustrophobia experienced by its titular character, who is yearning for release from the asylum to which she had been committed by her family.

    For most of the film's duration, neither Camille nor the audience are entirely clear about why she was incarcerated, or at least, why she remains so. What little back story we are given is relayed principally by Camille herself, and in a manner that suggests more eccentricity than madness. I had not read up on Claudel prior to seeing this film, but having done so since, I absolutely endorse Dumont's rendering.

    The direction is unhurried and the dialogue minimal. Long takes abound, soundtracked by repetitive noises like echoing footsteps, the crunching of gravel, and, most disconcertingly, the infantile howling of the asylum's residents. The sense of place and aesthetic is intelligently realised, and for all its oppressive qualities, this film is a beautiful thing to look at.

    As Camille, Binoche shines like the genuine star she is - a genius artist playing a genius artist. The occasional closeup (and there are many) may reveal a composure running one or two shades too deep for this character, however whenever our heroine cracks, Binoche exemplifies her mastery at bridling and channeling female psychology. The other figure in the narrative equation - Camille's brother Paul - is played by Vincent in turns both tender and oblique.

    Thematically, Dumont does not preach, but tantalisingly throws juxtaposition after juxtaposition before us, inviting manifold readings.

    Rather than write a critical analysis here, it will suffice to say that there is much to be gleaned from this film, notwithstanding biography.

    8.5/10
    6SnoopyStyle

    waiting

    Camille Claudel (Juliette Binoche) was born in 1864. She was a sculptress and also Rodin's mistress for 15 years. She became a recluse after breaking up with him. With the death of her father in 1913, her family confines her to Montdevergues Asylum near Avignon in 1915. She is paranoid about being poisoned, fears persecution from Rodin and thinks her family is greedy for her inheritance.

    There is a lot of waiting for something to happen. It's funny that Camille claims that they're trying to bore her to death. The movie gets that point across very well. Juliette Binoche is amazing. The scene where she lays out all of her persecutions to her doctor is electric. However, it's only one scene and one great actress. It's not more than that.
    9paulcreeden

    The boredom of insanity.

    My high respect for Juliette Binoche's technique and talent has been bolstered by watching her performance as Camille Claudel in this film. The film itself presents a stunning vision of mental illness and its treatment in the age prior to advanced psychotropic drugs. I am a registered nurse and worked for ten years with very symptomatic psychiatric patients in hospital. Ms. Binoche's subtle performance captures the painful boredom of confinement, both physical and mental. Confined mentally by her anxiety and paranoia, Camille is sealed off from satisfying human contact with the sane, while being tortured by the attentions and needs of those more disabled than herself. The well-meant attempts of nuns to engage her with those whom she fears come across as nearly sadistic. This subtlety marks the film as exceptional in my opinion. The appearance of the religiously fanatic and equally disturbed brother, Paul Claudel, who functions as her jailer, adds a feminist sensitivity to the film. Camille's powerlessness is largely feminine in her sexist world. The interplay between religion and confinement, physical and mental, is also brought to light through Paul Claudel's obsessive grandiosity as he converses with his god. Who are sane or insane? The depressed nuns? The grinning abbot? The pompously righteous brother? Camille hoping for release? No answers are given, in typically French fashion. But this film is well worth the time and reflection.
    9smiley_b81

    Best Foreign film of 2013

    Bruno Dumont's "Camille Claudel 1915" is 2013's undiscovered masterpiece. The film is a perfect marriage of a director's austere vision and actress showcase with Juliette Binoche's raw, poetic portrayal of the great French sculptress, middle-aged and institutionalized in an asylum ran by nuns.

    Paranoid over her once illicit relationship with famed sculpture Auguste Rodin (she insists she cook her own food out of fear of being poisoned), its painfully obvious that Claudel's shifty, manic (but still very conscious) mind has perhaps stymied her gift for good. In one remarkable scene, Camille picks up a patch of dirt with the thickness of clay, and hearing the birds chirp in a tree, she tries to sculpt a sparrow and the earth just slips through the cracks of her fingers. Binoche makes it heartbreaking.

    Dumont has made his art-house rep blending the rigid formal constraints of his grand forefather Robert Bresson with elements of the French Extreme cinema that emerged in the late 90's. In his films like "29 Palms" and "Flanders", behavior, often savage, is there to be observed not explained, and psychology is to be revoked. In the end we have actions, not characters. Not true in "Camille Claudel 1915". Bresson is very much there, but there is a bit of a Bergman and a Dreyer influence as well in its seeming religious objectivity (Dumont proves an expert of the pained close-up). We become familiar with Camille's day to day existence on the inside and out, and sensitive toward those 'truly' mentally ill that surround her.

    The compassion and care of the nuns in the asylum toward the inhabitants is contrary to the fundamentalist extremism of Camille's brother Paul, the man responsible for her imprisonment. The film's only shocking moment comes when he explains to the asylum's priest that he became a Christian after being inspired by the poetry of Rimbaud, as we know Rimbaud's life and art was far more blasphemous than Claudel's.

    Although more accessible than his previous work, Dumont's film will bore many viewers. Nowhere is it entertaining in any traditional Americanized sense. But anyone whose already familiar with Dumont, anyone that's felt levitated by Dreyer, Bresson or Bergman, anyone whose been a fan of Binoche and her acting, will be moved by this film as I was.

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    • Trivia
      The French culture magazine 'Transfuge' named Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) the No.1 film of 2013.
    • Crazy credits
      Loosely inspired by the works and correspondence of Paul Claudel and correspondence of Camille Claudel.
    • Connections
      Referenced in "Conversations avec ..." (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Avec Bidasse
      Music by Henri Mailfait

      Lyrics by Louis Bousquet

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    • Release date
      • March 13, 2013 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Juliette Binoche: The Art of Being - Official Fansite
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    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • La Créatrice
    • Filming locations
      • Saint-Paul-de-Mausole Monastery, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France(asylum)
    • Production companies
      • 3B Productions
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • C.R.R.A.V. Nord Pas de Calais
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    • Budget
      • €3,200,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $35,296
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,106
      • Oct 20, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $660,355
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 35m(95 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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