Camille Claudel 1915

Director: Bruno Dumont

2013 / 95min / DCP

Binoche gives a performance of staggering emotional rawness and resolve in Dumont’s compassionate depiction of the prodigiously gifted and prodigiously gossiped-about sculptor Camille Claudel. Drawing on surviving letters and documents written by or concerning its subject, the film follows three tormented days in which she is unjustly condemned to an asylum in Provence and forbidden the tools necessary to practice her art by her dourly devout brother (Jean-Luc Vincent), following an episode in which she began to destroy her own work. “A deeply sombre, deeply affecting film… Binoche endows her role with dignity, which accumulates into a tragic grandeur.” —The Guardian

Distributor: Kino Lorber