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Great actress, a fascinating person/character, but...

posted 12 years ago by Benedict_Cumberbatch
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... the Bruno Nuytten version with Isabelle Adjani is pretty good with a masterful performance, I don't see the need for this. But Binoche alone will convince me to check this out.

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[–] antinea-from-paris 11 years ago

Just saw this movie. Adjani and Binoche are two great actresses and their "Camille" are totally different.
Juliette Binoche is fantastic in a older and grittier version.
The movie is good but not for everyone.

The film is a 7/10,
Juliette Binoche is a 9/10.

[–] filmfancy 10 years ago

Juliette Binoche is fantastic in a older and grittier version.
The movie is good but not for everyone.

I thought the film was awful, but Binoche can play anything and is superb. Too bad the film was so laborious to watch. It was excruciatingly slow and pretty pointless. I much preferred the earlier film, Camille Claudel, even though I love Binoche. At least we got a story in CC and not just a view of Claudel's daily monotonous life in an asylum, waiting for her brother's visit.

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[–] jasongrimshaw 10 years ago

At least we got a story in CC and not just a view of Claudel's daily monotonous life

That was the story of 1915. I thought it to be a narratively rich, beautifully observed tragedy with a final shot of Binoche that is heartbreaking and devastating in in composition and irony. Her performance was masterful and the evocation of a specific place was superb. Binoche's two monologues in the film tell us all we need to know.

A masterpiece.

[–] Benedict_Cumberbatch 10 years ago

I haven't seen it yet as it hasn't been released anywhere near me. As I've said, I will check it out for Binoche alone. As a film lover, I'm always glad to be proven wrong when it comes to a project I felt wouldn't be necessary. The more good films, the merrier.

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[–] PoppyTransfusion 10 years ago

The Adjani film of a similar name charts Camille's creativity and relationship with Rodin through to break down. This film is Camille post-breakdown and living in an asylum. The film is very spare, which, if you're not familiar with Bruno Dumont you need some forewarning to bear what he demands from his viewers. Juliette Binoche is magnificent. I'm not sure that I've seen her better. Filmed almost without make up and showing age and raw emotion she drives the film as the complicated character and artist that was Camille Claudel. She's very human and as a viewer I felt so sorry for her because I don't believe her behaviour - assuming its accurately portrayed - was sufficient to warrant incarceration. In the film her character describes her incarceration as worse than prison and she's right. Her brother Paul, whose impending visit forms the narrative structure, is a prig who's not far off being demented himself.

I found the film challenging as a viewing experience and rated it 7/10 as a result. Binoche gets a 9/10 for her performance from me as does the beauty of the film.

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[–] Buff70 10 years ago

I have seen the first movie with Adjani and Depardieu.

They depict different periods of her life. The first movie was telling us about her youth, her Art, her romance with Rodin ...

This movie takes it from there and shows us her internment.