Dedicated to the suffering of the muse

Jazlyn 2022-01-23 08:02:18

Camille Crowdelle, a girl with deep blue eyes, is surprised by her enthusiasm for sculpture relative to her age and the time she lives in. She ran out in the middle of the night, digging the clay by the river. Her mother thought she would put her family to shame. "You are like a boy."

Camille's first marble work was a sculpture of a foot.
She sculpted it in the shape of her brother's foot. The work is very powerful.
Camille excitedly said to her brother:
——This will be my first marble sculpture, and he (Rodin) would like to sign on it
——just like Michelangelo signed his student work, But Victor Hugo will not sign my work
-I am like you, you will be a genius poet
-your eyes look at me like this, is this sin
-sin does not exist,
so Camille You kissed her brother Paul on the forehead.
They are a pair of siblings, and their mutual understanding cannot be obtained by people who are not related by blood.
Later, they really became excellent sculptors and poets. The two children seemed to see the future in each other's eyes.

Rodin signed on that foot. He thought that Camille had exactly what he was losing.
Then we could already foresee their love and the sin they would suffer for it.
The fusion and contradiction between the two of them in personality and spirit is not only between the artists, but also between the lovers.

Camille sculpted a bust of Rodin with a layer of mold
outside. When Rodin opened the mold, he was pleasantly surprised to call everyone.
There was a round of applause in the studio.
"This is a masterpiece," Rodin said. "Miss Camille already has the talent of a man."
However, Rodin did not agree to marry her.

After they separated,
Rodin went to visit her again, and they quarreled again.
You stole my creativity.
No, this is my idea.
you can not do that.
So what about you, great sculptor, why do you become a master?
It's up to you to open three creative rooms, then let the workers knock the stones, and then you finish the processing? ?
Rely on your relationship with those politicians? ? ?
………………

Camille is a female, and her tragedy lies here. Is she Rodin's lover or assistant, or an artistic collaborator or betrayer?
Is their mutual appreciation gender or spiritual?
Later she said, well, these sculptures don't look like Rodin anymore, they are my own.
Then she went crazy. Like all true pure artists, her destination was either hell or a lunatic asylum.
The ending was very miserable. She was imprisoned in a lunatic asylum for 30 years.
When she dedicated her life to the Muse, this ending was probably doomed.

This is not a puzzling movie. Its advantage lies in the smooth narrative and emotional expression. There are also poem-like dialogues, but the actors are not too artificial when they say them. In addition to Rodin and Camille's anecdote, the film also shows the influence of Camille's father, younger brother, and mother on her life. The film, because it is related to the artist, is quite considerate in the aesthetics of the picture. In one shot, in Rodin's exhibition of works, a painful sculpture of a man and a woman leaning together was taken so beautifully by a 360-degree lens.
Such a film, because of its tone and its easy-to-understand beauty, seems to be very pleasing in Europe and the United States, and it does indeed.

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Extended Reading

Camille Claudel quotes

  • Morhardt: Who do you think you are?

    Camille Claudel: Don't you know who I am? Or are you pretending?

    Morhardt: What kind of behavior is this? You're crazy!

    Camille Claudel: Camille Claudel. I am Camille Claudel! And if you don't know it, I'll show you!

  • Camille Claudel: My little Paul, you came to see me in May... and I made you promise not to neglect me so terribly. Madhouses are made to inflict suffering. It can't be helped... especially if you never see anyone. They try to force me to sculpt here. They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me. Don't forget, Paul, your sister is in prison with madwomen. Mama wrote the doctor... that I mean to harm you. That I detest you and am out to hurt you. It's not true. I wish she would take me to Villeneuve with her. Do you think I enjoy spending months, years like this without any news or hope? Where does such ferocity come from? How did they manage to change you so? I'd really like to know. You might as well send me to Siberia. Did you take care of my things? Are they in Villeneuve? Be careful they don't fall into Rodin's hands. He's so afraid I might come back. That's why he's keeping me here, isn't it, Paul? I would like to go home and close the door tightly. I don't know if I'll be able to realize this dream to be home. Oh, God, I wish I were in Villeneuve. Your sister in exile.