Wonderful Movie

From my favorite movies..

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Biography of Camille Claudel. The sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow...Women as artists is an interesting topic. As with just about every field, men have long been the dominant ones, and women have been left out of history. This seems very strange with regard to artists, though. Why are almost all the famous artists men? You don't need schooling, it's not necessarily a "job". Anyone with talent and free time can be an artist.Claudel, I confess, is not someone I knew. But, I didn't know her brother either. If not for Rodin, this whole world presented in the film would be foreign to me. Mayhaps I need to brush up on European artists between the wars?

I saw this movie long time ago in new york city i am a big fan of Isabelle Adjani, i love the movie very much at the time I know Rodin but little about Camille Claudel, she was a very talented woman over shadow by her husband fame and abuse and more . over shadow by the time she live in, Isabelle Adjani was amazing i think this is one of her best performance ever, Adjani maybe the best actress of the cinema of today she has done great work before and after this movie but this is my favorite , she was nominate for an Oscar as best actress and won a Cesar she won more Cesar as best actress than any other actress in France history, i have to said she is Brigitte Bardot favorite actress and she played Bardot in the movie Monsier Abrahim, Gerard Depardieu is Rodin in this great movie . Isabelle is always a pleasure to watch sadly she is not making many movies lately, i wish she does she is very gifted as an actress and we the fans all over the world deserve more movies from her, please isabelle never retire we need you .you are the best of all

This is one of the films I actually would give more than 10 points ! Judging from other comments, it seems that people either love this film very much, or they hate it. I was particularly impressed by Isabelle Adjani's performance as an artist and lover of Rodin who changed between devotion and obsession. Until I saw that film I had the impression that her (IA's) most important task in films was to look good. Admittedly, I did not know that many films with her in it. And she was, and is, pretty good at fulfilling that task. Her multi-faceted role as Camille Claudel was truly spectacular, considerably better than that of her colleague Gérard Depardieu who, nevertheless, was quite impressive as Rodin.

I agree with the other posters. This is an excellently photographed film, rich in detail, with marvelous acting. It is also totally depressing and way too long.I thought Isabelle Adjani's beauty was heart-stopping - absolutely luminescent. Those eyes, that skin - she is one of the great beauties of all time. That depressed me also, in the age of Brittany and all the other blonds. I suppose it's the foreign versus American perspective but give me my druthers, and I'll take Adjani's looks -- and presence -- any day!This story is being made into a musical by Frank Wildhorn for his wife, the beautiful and talented Linda Eder. I can't imagine a worse subject.