On every front, the film is a rich, detailed, epic work that drops us into a time and place and allows us to walk among artistic giants in all of their glory and depravity.

| Jun 16, 2020

The life of Auguste Rodin. A genius. A male fatale with his female fatale. A piece of audiovisual art. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 16, 2018

Doillon's film opens with Auguste Rodin working on his sculptural interpretation of Dante's The Gates of Hell. It is all too tempting to see this as a metaphor for the film as a whole.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2018

While it warms up a bit in the second half, Doillon only manages a rather obscure, even myopic depiction of Rodin's considerable cultural iconography.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 20, 2018

Rodin is better off being remembered for the works he created than this work about him.

| Oct 20, 2018

There's an impressive preciousness to the photography. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2018

The script, written by Doillon himself, manages to incorporate with some harmony the artistic thought of the sculptor in the course of this epic tale. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2018

Somewhat dissuasive because of its uneven dramatic intensity. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2018

On the one hand, we witness the grandiloquence of Rodin's declamations about the meaning of his art... but on the other, the film, in its narrative and temporal character, lacks a rhythmic and dramatic structure. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2018

[Director Jacques] Doillon faced the eternal dilemma that arises before a biopic of an artist of this height: to focus on the man behind the genius, or on the genius itself. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2018

Doillon delivers a non-traditional biopic which emulates Rodin's approach to his sculptures.

| Aug 21, 2018

Rodin flows organically and so vehement in complex sentimental relationships. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2018

They rather miss the point that Doillon presents Rodin and Claudel's relationship as a piece of beautiful marble that is slowly hewn away... Worse than the movie's so-called plodding-ness is its talkiness

| Jun 7, 2018

Rodin's work and legacy seem to contain more intrigue than his personal life, despite the effort of Doillon's reverential screenplay to prove otherwise.

| Jun 2, 2018

Doillon's filmmaking perfectly matches the passion of Rodin, like a musician biopic that feels like one of their songs.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 1, 2018

A cooped-up slog.

| Original Score: C | Jun 1, 2018

Dramatically and emotionally deficient, this art-house entry may fail to land the minimum bid and lure buyers.

| May 31, 2018

Not since Jacques Rivette's magnificent La Belle Noiseuse (1991) has a film zeroed in on creative process with the same obsessive care it devotes to the artist's volatile love life.

| May 31, 2018

It's a movie that already seems like a dust-gathered statue, rather than something vividly, imaginatively crafted to reflect the burning intensity of so passionate and forward-minded an artist.

| May 31, 2018

Auguste Rodin made sculptures of extraordinary expressiveness. "Rodin" offers two hours of actors struggling to appear lifelike.

| May 31, 2018