Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
Juliette Binoche's face, as we know, can tell a million stories in a simple and brief rearrangement of her facial muscles.
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France · 2013
1h 35m
Director Bruno Dumont
Starring Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy, Armelle Leroy-Rolland
Genre Drama
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Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - Camille Claudel waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel. She recalls her life and the events leading up to her confinement.
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
Juliette Binoche's face, as we know, can tell a million stories in a simple and brief rearrangement of her facial muscles.
In a incredibly contained performance that ranks among the best of her career, Juliette Binoche portrays a woman trapped by mental and physical constraints alike.
A measured, moving account of a brief period in the later life of the troubled sculptress, could hardly be the work of anyone else, with its sparseness of technique and persistent spiritual curiosity.
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Whatever nuance the movie has, it owes to Binoche’s performance; despite the material and visual context, she’s able to convey a sense of contradiction and inner life.
The film makes distant what surely should be vital and alive.
The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer
Juliette Binoche’s portrayal of the ill-fated artist is a study of restraint peppered with brief outbursts of emotion -- a riveting performance in an imposing, at times off-putting micro-biopic.
Exploitative as this may seem in theory, it works beautifully onscreen, mostly because of Binoche’s radiantly complicated humanity.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
One of the year's thorniest releases.
It seems like a departure, but soon turns into a Bruno Dumont film—and one of his most rigorous and powerful at that.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Ms. Binoche’s portrayal of Camille is one of the most wrenching performances she has given.
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