Camille Claudel (1988)

Camille Claudel: Directed by Bruno Nuytten. With Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill. Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.

“Thereu0026#39;s some nice photography in here, which is what helped me get through this long (159 minutes) soap opera-type story about the girlfriend (the title name, played by Isabelle Adjani) of the famous sculptor Rodin (Gerard Depardieu). u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere are a lot of closeups of Adjani which was fine with me as I never get tired of seeing her looks. u0026quot;Camilleu0026quot; also was a sculptor but when the romance with Rodin went sour, she went literally crazy. This movie details that saga.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn addition to the cinematography, you get to see some great sculptures – really good pieces of work. I just wish they had shown how the artists accomplished these pieces. Since they are just actors, all it did was show the two leads chipping away chunks of clay, never showing any detail work.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAt least, the film made me appreciate the art form more.”