her destruction

Matt 2022-04-21 09:03:17

Camille Claudel, who has been on the air for a long time, happened to watch the semi-autobiographical film The shine with another Jewish pianist David Helfgott who became famous at a young age but later became crazy. What I felt at the time was the identity of a female artist. Claudel's madness is tragic, and her talent has been dissipated into nothingness.

David is luckier, his stupidity is in a way self-imposed exile, so in fact, the two stories, although they are both man and the world, have completely different endings. For Claudel, the whole outside world has always been malicious and cruel to her. But from another point of view, the nightmare-like torture she endured may be regarded as a distorted projection of her inner passion to the outside world.

Her destruction is not necessarily the only way for an artist, but an eternal exile as a woman.

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Extended Reading
  • Martine 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    Camille, 33-year-old Adjani, I have seen too many blues, the blue of Venice, the blue of Chieslovsky, the blue of Wim Wenders, Derek Jarman The blue, the blue of despair, the blue of lucidity, the blue of loneliness... The blue is the ice that refuses to melt, and the blue is the burning flame. I prefer this piece of Ajani’s mad blue, the blue of pleading, repeatedly Chewing blue, withered and dried blue slowly aging in the lunatic asylum.

  • Jaunita 2022-01-23 08:02:18

    Adjani performed Camille's madness, despair, and even affection to the extreme, but it was still distressing. No matter how future generations comment on her, I think that it is a beautiful tragedy to be able to ruin myself and plunge into the desperate situation of love without leaving myself a retreat.

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.