The powerful evocation of a trapped soul rests entirely in the furrowed brow of Binoche... Camille Claudel is one of her most provocative performances yet.

| Aug 29, 2019

Camille Claudel 1915 is the first Dumont film I would truly consider boring. Everything it works so hard to convince us of, we have heard so many times before.

| Nov 22, 2017

With a stripped-down, bare-faced performance, Juliette Binoche is utterly wonderful in this tense French drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2014

A powerhouse performance by Juliette Binoche provides the beating, tortured heart of this finely wrought and very affecting film about the later life of sculptor Camille Claudel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2014

This is a stark film, about the human condition at its most base and degraded.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2014

This is a difficult film, but made with impressive formal rigour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2014

This later history of Claudel, which stars Juliette Binoche, is spare, harsh and minimalistic, as one would expect from Bruno Dumont.

| Jun 20, 2014

Throughout it all, Binoche's face shivers with emotions that Claudel herself cannot pin down.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2014

Binoche is excellent in a part that trades not on her beauty but her mind, portraying a woman whose talent made her dangerous in less enlightened times.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2014

A luminous performance from Juliette Binoche is the star attraction in this intense and challenging historical drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2014

It is a deeply sombre, deeply affecting film, based on real events, about the ordeal of Camille Claudel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2014

As non-plot becomes plot, so "shapelessness" finds its own shape. The film gathers mass, power and beauty as if unguided.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 19, 2014

The film stops dead in its tracks with the introduction of stout Catholic brother Paul Claudel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2014

Dumont's commitment to tone and aesthetics is remorseless - this was an injustice, and you will suffer accordingly for 94 minutes. But it's not just suffering for suffering's sake.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2014

A measured, challenging historical drama but also one of Dumont's more accessible films.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2014

Juliette Binoche gives a wonderful performance as Camille, conveying the intelligence, anxiety, anger and isolation of an artist abandoned by her family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2014

Juliette Binoche is brilliant, but the movie is a bit of a slog and its use of real mental patients as extras feels uncomfortably close to exploitation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2014

What emerges is a demanding but hypnotic, probing portrait of an artist denied her art, by a director in total command of his.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2014

As meticulous as one of Claudel's sculptures, Hors Satan director Dumont and his star do this true-life story justice with an empathetic telling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2014

An eerie and austere film charting the nightmarish response of the French sculptress to her imprisonment in an asylum.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2014