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Rodin

2017

Jacques Doillon

Vincent Lindon, Izia Higelin, Séverine Caneele, Edward Akrout ...

4.8

375

Drama Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), at 42, meets Camille Claudel, a young woman desperate to become his assistant. He quickly acknowledges her as his most able pupil, and treats her as an equal in matters of creation. More than a decade of work and passionate engagement ensues. Breakup follows reconciliation until Camille makes the final separation from which she will not recover, and from which Rodin himself will emerge deeply wounded. The film ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Even culture vultures will have their senses dulled by this ploddingly didactic two-hour lesson in the life and loves of master sculptor Rodin."	NEG
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] often feels as stiff and lifeless as an old slab of marble (...) A lumbering affair that never builds into a gripping, let alone complex, portrait of the man or his time"	NEG
United States	Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"It’s a turgid affair at best, both the film and the relationship (...) 'Rodin' is beautiful to look at, but is thoroughly lacking in the passion that it ostensibly portrays."	NEU
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"It’s got art and sex, but where’s the passion? (...) Honorable and handsome (...) [but] dull"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Jacques Doillon sculpts an excruciatingly bad film (...) The only passion this mind-blowingly dull biopic of the French sculptor is likely to incite is from audiences screaming for their money back (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"The film is overly cerebral, unfolding in a series of encounters that fade to black and never build a dramatic momentum."	NEG

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