Confined to a remote asylum near Avignon by her family the sculptor Camille Claudels claims of persecution are seen as proof of her madness. She rails impotently against her imprisonment the poisoning of her food her abandonment by her family and (most importantly) the theft of her art by her one-time lover Rodin. Awaiting a visit from her sanctimonious brother Paul (Jean-Luc Vincent) whose self-serving love of God convinces him that his sister is somehow possessed. Camille veers between moments of awful lucidity and entirely understandable paranoia her psychological... anguish made flesh by Juliette Binoche. [show more]
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Bruno Dumont directs this biographical drama about the French sculptor Camille Claudel, who is here portrayed by Juliette Binoche. The film focuses on Camille's time spent in an asylum after she is sent there by her brother, the poet Paul Claudel (Jean-Luc Vincent), who questions his sister's sanity when she destroys some of her own works. She lives a reclusive life trying to prove to her doctor that she is mentally stable while waiting in hope that her brother will visit and consent to her discharge from the institution.
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