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Camille Claudel, 1915 isn't an easy watch, but Juliette Binoche's excellent performance makes it worth the effort. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Camille awaits a visit from her brother after her family commits her to an asylum in the South of France in the winter of 1915.

Genre:

drama, biography
Original Language:

French (France)
Director:

Bruno Dumont
Producer:

Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, Muriel Merlin, Véronique Cayla
Writer:

Bruno Dumont
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$6.6K
Runtime:

1h 35m
Production Co:

Arte, Canal+

Cast & Crew

Juliette Binoche
Camille Claudel

Jean-Luc Vincent
Paul Claudel

Emmanuel Kauffman
Le prêtre

Marion Keller
Mlle Blanc

Robert Leroy
Le médecin

Armelle Leroy-Rolland
La jeune soeur novice

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Critic Reviews for Camille Claudel, 1915

All Critics (46) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (9)

A powerhouse performance by Juliette Binoche provides the beating, tortured heart of this finely wrought and very affecting film about the later life of sculptor Camille Claudel.

June 22, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Mark Kermode
Observer (UK)
This is a stark film, about the human condition at its most base and degraded.

June 20, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Laurence Phelan
Independent (UK)
This is a difficult film, but made with impressive formal rigour.

June 20, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Geoffrey Macnab
Independent (UK)
This later history of Claudel, which stars Juliette Binoche, is spare, harsh and minimalistic, as one would expect from Bruno Dumont.

June 20, 2014 | Full Review…

Graham Fuller
Sight & Sound
Throughout it all, Binoche's face shivers with emotions that Claudel herself cannot pin down.

June 20, 2014 | Rating: 4/5

Charlotte O'Sullivan
London Evening Standard
It is a deeply sombre, deeply affecting film, based on real events, about the ordeal of Camille Claudel.

June 19, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
The powerful evocation of a trapped soul rests entirely in the furrowed brow of Binoche... Camille Claudel is one of her most provocative performances yet.

August 29, 2019 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
Camille Claudel 1915 is the first Dumont film I would truly consider boring. Everything it works so hard to convince us of, we have heard so many times before.

November 22, 2017 | Full Review…

Michael Sicinski
Cinema Scope
With a stripped-down, bare-faced performance, Juliette Binoche is utterly wonderful in this tense French drama.

June 30, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Contactmusic.com
Binoche is excellent in a part that trades not on her beauty but her mind, portraying a woman whose talent made her dangerous in less enlightened times.

June 20, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Damon Wise
Radio Times
A luminous performance from Juliette Binoche is the star attraction in this intense and challenging historical drama.

June 19, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Allan Hunter
Daily Express (UK)
The film stops dead in its tracks with the introduction of stout Catholic brother Paul Claudel.

June 19, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Josh Slater-Williams
The Skinny

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Audience Reviews for Camille Claudel, 1915

Oct 22, 2013

"Camille Claudel 1915" has a couple of great things going for it, like an excellent performance from Juliette Binoche in the title role of a woman who was at one time a lover and protege of Rodin and a sculptor in her own right, and a valid point about the state of mental health a hundred years ago, allowing a woman to be trapped in an asylum for decades against her will. That's especially hard to take considering she is much healthier than her fellow inmates and her brother Paul(Jean-Luc Vincent) has delusions of his own. But that's pretty much it and nowhere near enough, as Bruno Dumont does little more with the source material of letters and medical records than to simply transcribe them. Look, I know he has never made easy films to understand but at least in the past he has tried to challenge the audience instead of making a tedious movie like this one.

Walter M Super Reviewer