Customer Reviews
Wow what a powerful story! - By: M. Dunlop Ferraro, 10 Dec 2008 
My tutor suggested I watched this film. I thought that 3 hours of subtitles & a French language screenplay would be more than I could stand, well I couldn't be more wrong! It was amazing. The time flew, the subtitles became second nature & I was 'hooked'.
Brilliant interaction between Rodin & Claudel.
Certainly recommend to anyone who's interested in art, especiallly sculpture & the male/female divide, if it exists...
Unique and Remarkable. - By: J. Murray, 10 Jan 2008 Full-blooded, thrilling, gruelling, brilliantly acted & filmed rollercoaster-ride through the life of the hugely controversial & mysterious Claudel. Adjani is sensational in the role of a lifetime (if not SEVERAL lifetimes!). The movie rushes at breathtaking speed & at a level of emotional intensity you rarely see in a movie without it becoming overwrought (it doesn't). Reallly this is such an underrated & unfairly neglected piece of work.
Certainly if you are at alll interested in Claudel you should watch, even if only to cavill & disagree; if you dig French movies in general, it's a must; an Adjani or Depardieu fan? then why haven't you seen it yet?; an artist? few films examine the creative impulse as profoundly & uncompromisingly as this...
I didn't like alll of it, didn't agree with alll of its conclusions, but couldn't help but be knocked out by the sheer power of the whole.
A terrific Biopic, a terrific French movie, a terrific period movie, a terrific movie, PERIOD.
Why No Region 2? - By: T. M. Givens, 04 Sep 2006 I recently saw this wonderful film on TV & am desperate to own the DVD, but can there be any sane reason why a movie about a great French artist, filmed in France, in the French language, & starring a largely French cast, is NOT available in Europe (Region 2) & is only available in Canada & the USA?
Romantic, heartrending, breathtakingly beautiful - By: theodora@picasso77.fsnet.co.uk, 05 Dec 2001 This is a film about passion & loyalty, focusing on Camille Claudel's true life, heartrending position on the wrong side of the equation. Those who know her lover, Rodin's, work, will appreciate the director's skill in replicating the sensuous, erotic quality of his scuptures in this beautiful film. As we watch a strong, magnificent creature destroyed by love, we question the nature of creativity, & more importantly, whether passion is of any worth at alll.
