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Plot Summary
Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as Auguste Rodin's protégé and sister of the Christian poet Paul Claudel. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the film focuses on Camille Claudel's struggle to find understanding and recognition as an artist moments before her brother's visit during her 29-year confinement in a mental institution. Shot in a real psychiatric asylum, Bruno Dumont brings together a supporting cast comprised of real-life patients and their actual nurses that, alongside Binoche, create an emotionally intense ensemble and a rare cinematic experience.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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82%- Reviews Counted: 44
- Fresh: 36
- Rotten: 8
- Average Rating: 7.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Ms. Binoche's portrayal of Camille is one of the most wrenching performances she has given.
Fresh: One of the year's thorniest releases.
Rotten: Juliette Binoche, as Claudel, is occasionally touching, but as soon as interest flares, the movie suffocates it via endless takes of her suffering through daily chores.
Fresh: This is a stark film, about the human condition at its most base and degraded.
Customer Reviews
The Great Binoche is Great
She is the film. The film is inspired by the horror of asylum life. Camille Claudel lost her sense of reality due to Rodin's rejection of marriage. Thereafter, she descended into the precarious paranoid and the almost stable. Her relatives incarcerated her. She was too sane to be in, still to damaged to be let out.
Don't expect entertainment. The film fails by using soliloquy not cinematic technique. This film is heavy. Watch it for Binoche. Watch it to touch the pain of a person who loved too much. Watch it to understand what is on the other side of the usual and the normal.
It's good. Binoche is terrific. She's been wonderful for 4 decades.
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