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Camille Claudel 1915, screenplay and direction by Bruno Dumont ; producers, Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin

fre

videorecording

Not rated

Camille Claudel 1915

videorecording DVD

screenplay and direction by Bruno Dumont ; producers, Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin

95

Potrays Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics. Suffering from bouts of paranoia, she focuses on her art and her family as pillars of sanity, until those too begin to crumble

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live action