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TITLE Camille Claudel (1988)

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DISABILITY Mental

COUNTRY France

LENGTH 149

GENRE Biography

DIRECTOR Bruno Nuytten

CAST Isabelle Adjani

Gerard Depardieu

Laurent Grevill

Alain Cuny

Madeleine Robinson

Katrine Boorman

Daniele Lebrun

NOTES Biography of French sculptress, Camille Claudel who initially

considered obsessed with her art is later diagnosed as

mentally ill.

With players like Adjani and Depardieu (as Auguste Rodin)

one would expect some light thrown on the subject but the

critics haven't thought so.

Camille was an independent woman, frowned upon at the

time and this may have contributed to her condition. The last

thirty years of her life were in a 'madhouse'. And perhaps

worse her work today is hardly known compared with Rodin,

one of whose mistresses she was.

 


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