Camille Claudel, 1915

2013

1h 35m

Biography

Drama

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46 Reviews

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500+ Ratings

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Camille awaits a visit from her brother after her family commits her to an asylum in the South of France in the winter of 1915.

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Camille Claudel, 1915 isn't an easy watch, but Juliette Binoche's excellent performance makes it worth the effort.

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Mark Kermode

Observer (UK)

A powerhouse performance by Juliette Binoche provides the beating, tortured heart of this finely wrought and very affecting film about the later life of sculptor Camille Claudel.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 22, 2014

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Laurence Phelan

Independent (UK)

This is a stark film, about the human condition at its most base and degraded.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 20, 2014

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

This is a difficult film, but made with impressive formal rigour.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 20, 2014

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

The powerful evocation of a trapped soul rests entirely in the furrowed brow of Binoche... Camille Claudel is one of her most provocative performances yet.

Aug 29, 2019

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Michael Sicinski

Cinema Scope

Camille Claudel 1915 is the first Dumont film I would truly consider boring. Everything it works so hard to convince us of, we have heard so many times before.

Nov 22, 2017

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Rich Cline

Contactmusic.com

With a stripped-down, bare-faced performance, Juliette Binoche is utterly wonderful in this tense French drama.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 30, 2014

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"Sıkıcı Fransız filmleri"nde bugün :) Minimalist Fransız sineması buysa teşekkürler kalsın. Claudel gibi bir ismi, Rodin'in baş ilhamını al, hikayesini sadece en acı çektiği akıl hastanesiyle sınırlandır, durağan, uzun, teatral ve kasvetli sahnelerle hayal gücümüzü de öldür. Binoche harika da, Claudel böyle mi anlatılır? Bu filme 2 yıldızdan fazla veren arkadaşları o sıkıcı hayatları ile başa başa bırakmak gerek :)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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A painful, sad account of Camille Claudel's last years. Much bleaker and more depressing than the 1988 account of her career and relationship with Rodin. Here we have barely a trace of her skill as a sculptor: she picks up a piece of wet earth and molds a figure before throwing it away in anger. And she draws flowers on the borders of letters she sends to her devout brother and a longago friend. She is left in paranoia and misery in the midst of the inhabitants of an insane asylum in Provence. This portrayal of the beautiful region will not encourage tourism. Convinced she is being poisoned, Camille lives on water and a daily potato she cooks herself. She helps with the other patients, who are portrayed by actual mental patients, which adds to the poignancy and tragedy of the movie. Her priggish brother, a famous Catholic poet and playwright whose works I have never liked. Despite his faith, he shuts his sister away as he agonizes over his affair with a married woman. He is continually lecturing everyone and not listening to anyone. His clothing is well cut and he drives a glossy automobile. The actual Claudel visited Camille only seven times in 30 years. She didn't have a chance.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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http://letterboxd.com/zbender/film/camille-claudel-1915/ This film chronicles the life of Camille Claudel, a sculptor in France, who spends the last 29 years of her life or so living in a mental asylum. The film does a great job setting the atmosphere in which Camille lives. The asylum is a desolate location in which Camille seems alone despite all the other mentally ill who reside. Nobody seems to listen to her despite her constant crying out (all despair acted brilliantly by Juliette Binoche). This film though could be seen as slow and I get that it was because the whole environment was attempted to be captured perfectly by director Bruno Dumont. Because of that a story never seemed to be of fruition, only focusing on the torment Camille must have been through.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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It was a work of art indeed but it was unbearable for some reasons... I looked forward to see "The End" or "Fin" whatever..!

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Juliette Binoche is magnificent.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Bruno Dumont's latest film, CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915, has none of his usual shock value but with total astute subtlety, Dumont creates a breathtaking and quite frightening world where one loses all control over one's life. Juliette Binoche is once again astounding playing a woman trapped in her own mind but perhaps most terrifying, isolated and restrained in an asylum by a world that simply will not understand her. The Claudel of this film is restrained and a true victim of the world around her. Dependent on others for her freedom and sanity. CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 depicts a person becoming more insane by the hands of others. It is a film that shakes you to the core.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Bruno Dumont

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Juliette Binoche

Camille Claudel

Jean-Luc Vincent

Paul Claudel

Emmanuel Kauffman

Le prêtre

Marion Keller

Mlle Blanc

Robert Leroy

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Synopsis

Camille awaits a visit from her brother after her family commits her to an asylum in the South of France in the winter of 1915.

Director: Bruno Dumont
Screenwriter: Bruno Dumont, Paul Claudel
Production Co: Arte, Canal+
Genre: Biography, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 26, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.6K
Runtime: 1h 35m