"Please, I must see Miss Lipscomb." " At this hour?" " It's urgent... about my sister." "You'll wake the whole house!" "Miss Lipscomb!" "It's Mister Claudel." "Paul!" "What's the matter?" "What happened to Camille?" " She's vanished." "Where could she be?" " She told me nothing." " My mother's very upset." " Tenta a Rue Notre-Dame des Champs." "PARIS, FEBRUARY 1885" "Camille, you went digging for clay again?" "I just came from your house." "Your mother wanted to call the cops." "Anda your brother Paul was ready to look for you all over the world." "Are you listening?" "Boucher is right, you've got the madness of mud." "You're awful." "You never answer me even when it's about you." "Only your work counts." "Am I meant to be a sculptor?" "I'm such a dreamer!" "Mr. Boucher says that Auguste Rodin is a genius and that he seduces all the girls." "We'll have to watch out." "Do you believe he's as scandalous as his work?" "All his models sleep with him." "Let's put it facing the light." "We'll see him better." ""Toto" has his transparences." " Don't leave it there." " When I'm nervous, I need "Toto"." "He'll think we're mad." "He's here!" " Go open the door." " Why me?" "Open the door!" "Hello, young ladies." " Jessie Lipscomb." " Camille Claudel." "I know, I know." "I must tell you, I can't stay." "I'm in a rush." " Mr. Boucher said..." " Mr. Boucher..." "If I may say..." "Boucher..." "His Rome prize is very good." "A year in Rome..." "And who wouldn't rather be in Rome?" "Right?" "But as for replacing him..." "that's a big step!" "No, you have to work the clay." "Don't rely on inspiration." "It doesn't exist." "What can I teach you, anyway?" "A sculpture takes time." "You have to let it rest forget it..." "to better judge it." "I know." "I haven't finished it." "It's unfinished." "Also, the timing's bad." "I've taken on much work." "I'm swamped." "Have some tea, at least." "Boucher said you left the Colarossi Academy." "Is that true?" " Yes, why?" "Shouldn't we have?" " No, no." "You've already solved the heating problem." "This is better." "Heating is very important." "My first studio was a stable." "Freezing cold." "I was going to make my first bust:" "A rich lady." "I didn't have a cent, so I got some old shoes... and tried to burn them for heat, you understand?" "The lady arrived and posed..." "but the smell!" "The smell!" "She passed out from the smell." "The scare of my life!" "I thought she was dead." "What's this prehistoric beast?" " That's Toto." "A small African rhinoceros." " Toto?" "Don't you know?" "Zero plus zero equals "Tototo"." "It feels so nice here, I forgot I'm in a hurry." " Mr. Rodin, I'd like some marble." " You've worked on stone?" "Granite." "In the country." "Rhinoceros, granite..." "You like challenges, Miss Claudel?" "So..." "We'll think it over and see about the lessons." "After all, there are other teachers in Paris." "Young ladies, goodbye." "He's so handsome and strong!" "And bright!" " What do you think?" " Nothing." "What do you mean, nothing?" "We didn't ask him here to tell us stories." " That was just to get acquainted." " I can't afford it anyway." "That type says, "I know, you don't." "I see, you don't."" "You're exaggerating, Camille." "He never mentioned our work!" "Do you realize?" "What a lout!" "Does that amuse you?" "Not me." "You can yawn for daddy on Sunday." "Until now daddy went along with you." "But this time he won't." "You will not resist the discipline of the academy." "You want your freedom." "Sharing a studio with a dizzy foreigner!" "You don't care what it costs!" "Classes... rent..." "If daddy is not here, is because he has to earn that money, cent by cent at the expense of all else." "Some life for a man his age!" "Seeing his family once a week!" "And what about me?" "When he hears that you sneak out to steal clay keeping us up all night, making your brother fail school!" "All for your whims!" "For your so-called "vocation"!" "And you upset your brother, having him read filthy books unsuitable for his age..." "Unsuitable for any age!" " Leave her alone, mother." " That shameless brat!" "My first marble!" "He'll like it so much, he'll sign it." "Like Michelangelo with his pupils?" "I wouldn't have Victor Hugo sign my poems." "You're just an anarchist, Paul." "A young savage." "I can't bear school anymore." "Thank you for introducing me to Rimbaud's poems." "It makes me ecstatic." "Will I ever be able to run away like he did?" "I love your writing, and I adore you." "You alone believe in me." " My little Paul." " You look at me so sweetly." " Is that a sin?" " Sin doesn't exist." "MARBLE WAREHOUSE" "Limet, give this young lady some marble." "One of the chunks from "Eve."" "Excuse me..." "I'm being visited by the Ministry of Culture." "Give my cumpliments to Jessie Lipscomb." "Send Louis with her." "Do you have tools for marble?" "Good luck, then." " What have you worked with?" " Green granite..." " From Soissons?" " Yes." "Eve!" "Mr. Rodin is spoiling you." "Pure Pitacci." "Smell it!" "This one will probably do nicely." "That one?" " No." "This one..." " Paros, from Greece." "Be careful, it's fragile." " A hand, or a handout?" " Neither one." "Why accept an official order for work you don't plan to do?" "We'll never stay on schedule this way." "My ideas don't come from orders." " What did she choose?" " The pyramid." " The little one?" " Yes, the Paros marble." "She doesn't know how hard it is to work with." "One wrong tap and it breaks in half." "She's too young to know that." " She should take lessons." " It's not true, Limet, I saw her work..." "Two heads... an old woman and a tramp." "Merely sketches." "You know, when the clay is more alive than the model..." "like real flesh..." " That's rare." " You're wrong about her." "She doesn't need lessons." "Boucher is wrong, too." "She'll learn by doing." ""With that horrible warning as the steel touched my neck..."" ""my body shivered and a muffled cry escaped my lips."" ""The executioner's hand trembled."" ""'Sir,' he said to me..." "'Have I hurt you?" "'"" ""These hangmen have soft hearts."" "You seem to love Victor Hugo, Giganti." "He's the greatest man alive." "He's all I have..." "And you too, now." "Daddy!" "Rodin could not have been indifferent." "The Dean of the School of Fine Arts thought you were already Rodin's pupil." "Alfred Boucher was surprised..." "God, what have I done to deserve such a daughter!" "Always conniving to steal her father's money." " It's sunday, miss." "Please..." " Don't you interfere." "That tramp!" "If my first baby hadn't died I'd never have given birth to her!" "She behaves like a boy!" "She hurts me, sets her father against me." "He'll make us all suffer for her filth." "Madame, get dressed, please." "It doesn't help to shut yourself away." "It's not me who should be shut away." "Louise Athanaise!" "Come on out!" "This is ridiculous!" " Good morning, Monsieur Limet." " No luck?" "Thank Mister Rodin for me." "You should read this project about M. Eiffel's project." "It's very impressive." "Jessie, read this!" "Read it out loud!" ""Young ladies." "I am beginning a major piece of work."" ""I need apprentices." "Tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. My studio."" ""Rodin"." "Watch your step!" " Morhardt!" " Limet!" "Where's our friend?" "Bad timing." "Monsieur Rodin isn't here." "He's very busy these days." "Let's go." "Rodin goes too far." "Did you see those two young girls?" "On the "Gates of Hell" there'll be small statues of the damned." "Rodin has great ideas." "With a little help from Dante and his "Divine Comedy."" "He doesn't need help." "He's been commissioned." "The boss will accomplish what he wants." "He always does." " He's like a father to me." " You certainly love him." "YOU WHO ENTER HERE LEAVE ALL HOPE" "Marcel, you needn't have written on the cloth!" "Miss Claudel did it." "Foolishness!" "Remove that scroll!" "Put the two Adams back together." "Circulate!" "Young lady..." "Stand between them again." "Nice, very nice." "Limet, make me another Adam for tomorrow." "Well..." "Thank you, all." "How was Victor Hugo's first sitting?" "I love him." "I'd like to sculpt him nude." "Like the God that he is!" " Hey girls!" "Got a lover?" " We don't tell to nobody." " Stuck-up!" " She's a proper young lady." "She's cultured, she's saving it..." " Tell me, when do we see Rodin work?" " He's busy thinking." "He'd better watch out!" "Women are less important than official orders." " An art project is an art project." " The truth is, he has no ideas." "You know that Rodin is busy arguing with the Minister." "As a sculptor he is learning, but as lecher he knows everything." "I'm sure it will be beautiful, Giganti." "You'll be almost crouching, with your head down leaning on your knee." "And your arms your arms will hang down, hugging one leg." "I'm sure it will be powerful." "Powerful and tender, like you." " Taking a break?" " It has to dry." " Want company?" " All the screens are taken." "You wouldn't know what to do." "Come on, honey!" "Show me what you've got!" "Leave me alone!" "You're asking for it!" "I'll get you." "Girls don't play coy for long here, with Rodin." "You can play without me, with Rodin!" "Leave her alone." "You!" "You'd better stick to plastering!" "Marcel, don't you get it?" "You're like plaster, dull and sticky!" " Where are you going?" ", Camille?" " Back to my real work!" "Madam!" "Forget it." "You don't stand a chance!" "What's wrong?" "Trouble?" "I just passed by an angry young girl..." "Wait for me in the office., Rose." "Return to your pose, Adele." "He doesn't like my marble foot." " He'll never sign it." " Listen." ""A miracle is based on three conditions:"" ""First, the credulity of all..."" ""...second, the good will of some..."" ""...and third, the tacit consent of the principal creator."" "He should have understood..." "Camille..." "You take everything too much to heart." " Did you ask him?" " No, he never speaks to me." ""He who is a legend in his own time, is ruled by that legend."" ""We started with the ingenuity, credulity and innocence..."" ""...and end up with all sorts of problems."" ""But, to cover up flaws and maintain the myth of Divine Power..."" ""...we take desperate measures to free ourselves from these problems. "" "We'll hire another...?" " No!" "Still no word from the Claudel girl?" " No." "You are unbearable!" "Why did you leave?" "Such outrageous behavior!" "Are you always so impulsive?" "I don't have much time." "I didn't hire you as a joke." "I need people on the job, day and night." "There's work to be done!" " Where did you find the green clay?" " Under my feet." "In Paris, Monsieur." "You got the head and neck right, but you avoided the body." "The human body is a world that moves, that pulsates." "It's life!" "Never think in surfaces, think in relief." "If you want to copy the head of my Adam, look..." " Not at all, not at all, I didn't." " Can I see your model?" "Not a pro, I hope." "They're too soft, flabby..." "Come and look..." "Stand here, see..." "You must search in the neck you must force the muscles." "There..." "You never see me work, so you think I do nothing." "Careful, you'll hurt him!" "There you are." "You spare your model." "You're bold enough to sculpt a nude man." "But you make him comfortable, and you hide his body." "I'll show you where I work in secret." " You grant that I'm bold, at least." " You're intelligent and you work from the heart." "You're right, but you go about it the wrong way." "You want me to teach you?" "I don't need lessons or advice." "I work directly with live subjects." "I accept, Miss Claudel." " Am I fired?" " She's a pupil." "Oh, sure, another pupil..." "Too bad!" "Because I froze yesterday." "What'll we try?" "I hope today you have an idea, at least." "The longer you think, the colder I get." "One can only see the profiles in shadow." "That profile is no good." "See?" " Won't you go in?" " No..." "I'll go see Jessie first." "No... not tonight." "I'll see her tomorrow." "You already know things that took me years..." "And, what I saw in Italy..." "Two Michelangelo's unfinished slaves lost, abandoned in a dark corner..." "The randomness of what's left unfinished, it's a complete emotion before pure genius." "The other day when I saw you, all white, standing between my two Adams you gave me the idea for a third one." "I thought inspiration doesn't exist." "Pardon me?" "I thought inspiration doesn't exist." "I'm so happy." "I'm so happy, Camille." "I'll take you wherever you want." "Anywhere." "To the studio." "Your studio, in Notre-Dame des Champs street?" "Yes..." "No." "Giganti is probably sleeping." "I'll go home." " Shall we go to Italy?" " I'm going in." " Afraid of being scolded?" " No." " Honest?" " No." "I'm no longer a child." " And my mother doesn't speak to me." " Why?" "She doesn't like sculpture..." "All that filth..." "Mine always said, "Get rid of them!" "They're everywhere!"" ""Even under the bed!" "Your mess!"" "You see..." "I'm twice your age, but our memories are the same." "Good night." "I never meant to copy your Adam." "My Giganti hides his body because he's hurt." "Your coat!" "At least you know what moves you..." "I no longer know." " Look, Paul..." "He signed!" " Don't you know?" "Victor Hugo is dead." "Is that her?" "Her eyes are blue like in the romances." "Deep blue, Schwob." "Victor Hugo is dead!" "Victor Hugo is dead!" "Victor Hugo is dead!" "All of France weeps for Hugo, and you cry over nonsense!" " I want to go with you!" " But it's not a party, it's a funeral!" " I'm saving you a trip." " But I want to see the procession." "There isn't any." "Yes, there is!" "I read in the newaspapers." " Now, Rose..." " The truth is, you're ashamed of me." "You'll be happier on your balcony." "Oh, leave me alone!" " Have you seen Giganti?" " No." "What heat!" "Oh, such heat!" "Can't you play something else, dear Louise?" "She said, "You're ashamed of me!"" "And he said "Rose, you'll be happier on your balcony."" "And old Rose was dressed in pink, from head to toe!" " Who is this Rose?" " Louis says it's ancient history." "Is she his wife?" "Louis says she's one of several." "But they're not married." "You're sure?" "Positive." "Her name is Rose Beuret." "It's hot, isn't it?" " You're sure?" " Yes." "Get dressed." "That funeral wore me out." "Poor Victor Hugo." " Come back tomorrow." "It's too hot today." " Good-bye, Mr. Rodin." "Another party that turns into crap." "All that people simpering and pretending grief." "They use the body for its own purposes." "You're a fine sight in those dark panes!" " The country will do us all good." " She thinks she doesn't need the rest." "Walk around!" "You'll step on your sisters' skirts!" "I've invited Mr. Rodin to Villeneuve." "It's time we thanked him." " But, Papa, he's too busy." "He can't come." " I wrote to him." "We'll see..." "Tell the priest I still want to tear down his church." "Louis Prosper!" "Stop tormenting that poor priest." "Have a good trip!" "See you Sunday." "Mr. Rodin." "I beg you..." "don't come to Villeneuve." "Notice the curves of the steeple." "Delighted, Madame Rodin." "We wanted to thank you..." "We feel honored..." "How was your trip?" "We did a very pretty detour." "Camille!" "Our guests are here." "We used to live here all year, but my husband works in Rambouillet now." "And then, Camille dragged us to Paris." "Ah!" "Here's Camille!" " Rose, this is Miss Claudel." " I know..." "How are you, master?" "May I present my brother, Paul..." "Delighted." "Miss Claudel, Mr. Rodin, Paul, Miss Rodin..." "Sensual pleasures are everywhere." "The color of the foliage the quality of the sky..." " Stop!" "Rose will catch on." " I don't care." "And the silence..." "If only we had lettuce so beautiful in the St-Jacques street." "You flatter my wife." "It's her garden." " I grow tomatoes on my balcony." " Rose is full of ideas." "I don't want to see them." "You should have stopped him." "And he brought her!" "I'll never forgive you." " Do you want to wash up?" " Exactly." "Follow me, mister." "Wear out the earth..." " Aren't you glad to see me?" " Why did you come?" "It's horrid." "I'm ashamed." " It's a good way to keep time." " To be precise, Madame this poor priest keeps us informed of all his pitiful activities." " Are you a practicing Catholic?" " I do as Mister Rodin does." "And what does Mister Rodin do?" "This may surprise you, but I almost became a monk." "I was young." "I had an older sister, Maria, whom I adored She became a nun after a promise of marriage fell through..." "She died of grief." "After her death I entered the monastery." "I began leading her life." "To my surprise, my Confessor asked me to do his portrait." "By making me sculpt, he brought me back to life." "To my life, I mean." "It's a miracle that he recognized the difference between grief and a vocation." "No doubt..." "No doubt." " I think I'd do the same thing." " You, Camille?" " You'd become a nun?" " I would stop..." "What arrogance!" "From whom do you get it?" "Camille is not arrogant." "She just won't settle for less than she thinks she deserves." "When she's violent it's only because she's impassioned." "As a child, she used to model human skeletons out of clay." "Then she'd bake them in the oven." "And she'd forget to eat and sleep." "It was amazing." "When she's touchy it's because she's uncompromising." "Father..." "Mister Rodin must have realized this." "Isn't that so, Mister Rodin?" "Ah, Miss Claudel, the temperament!" "Where do we get our temperament?" "We don't know where it comes from, but we do know what it does!" "The "Gates of Hell" was delayed three years, thanks to those fools." "See..." "Missing the feet and hands." "Do you know "The Burghers of Calais"?" "Can someone tell me the story of "The Burghers of Calais"?" "Victor Hugo allowed me to do his head, but I was ill disposed." "I had to run between the table and my seat to don't forget what I saw." "And Balzac." "I had him, then I lost him, and then I had him again." "How to extract the brain of a man and apply it to his face?" "Oh, I limit myself to feel sorry for me." "So, if I don't want to be hounded by bureaucrats, I must have help." "I can't work alone." "And Jessie Lipscomb is leaving us for England." "I need qualified artists." "Talented ones!" "And fast!" "No time to lose." "Which brings me to the pressing reason for my visit here." "I want Camille in Paris!" "Oh, yes." "That's the end of vacation." "Madame Rodin, coffee is served." "Victoire, we'll drink coffee in the garden." "Mr. Rodin..." "Mr. Rodin!" "Auguste..." "Auguste!" " I feel you're abandoning me." " But it's you who is going away." " Rodin didn't come to say good-bye." " Give his secrets to the English." "I won't give them." "I'll sell them!" "Goodbye, darling!" "Camille!" "Mr. Limet, here they come!" "Welcome." "Marvellous, isn't it?" "Pure 18th century..." "Limet, change the locks anyway." " It stinks, huh, Mr. Rodin?" " Industry, Louis, industry." "Whan I heard Folie Neubourg, I thought that we were going to a madhouse." " Did you check thoroughly?" " Yes." "Nobody's living here." "The country!" "Right here in Paris!" "Do you like our new studio, Miss Claudel?" "I'm the happiest woman alive." "I love you." "I love you!" "FOR RENT" "Look how beautiful you are..." "Look..." "Stay with me tonight..." "No..." "I don't want to upset my family." "Louis Prosper, come inside now." "You'll catch cold." "When I think Camille doesn't even bother to come home on Sunday to see you." "Your one day at home..." "Are you listening to me, Louis Prosper?" "She's a bad example for Paul." "I couldn't find Giganti!" "You'll forget him." "He'd have been a good "Bourgeois of Calais." To work!" "You loved her?" "I know you loved her." "You never dared tell her." "I'll tell you a secret, Giganti." "Without her, I don't know..." "She's my only source of inspiration." "What does she have that I've lost?" "It's too late, Mr. Rodin." "We won't be able to see anything." " I see very well." " That's different." "Where is the difference?" "What good are all these fluff?" "Miss Claudel discusses with the light?" "Vocês, fotógrafos, näo inventaram nada!" "Look at her!" "She can work day and night." "She is the best carver I know and doesn't have cat eyes." "Enough." "He is right." "It's dark as pitch." "Good evening, sir." "I need a picture for that american magazine." "What is wrong with you?" "It is very dark." "Good evening, sir!" "Just look at them!" "Scandalous!" " I'm going." " No." "What'll I do without you?" "The little thrown into the dirty water that sickens me, dare not call for help in disgust, close the mouth and dies." "I want to go far away, leave Paris, leave the family... everything around me or I'll disappear in a cataclysm." "I'm sure that Rodin will help you." "You'll join the foreign service..." "I have to be very bad for you think of me." "What are you doing?" "Well, your sister and her fiance are!" "Tell Rodin you'd prefer China or America..." "Your fiancée is a fine pianist, Mr. Massary." "Execuse me, I'll be back soon." "What are you lovebirds doing?" "Rodin was going to give you a raise." "Did he?" "He promised, Papa." " Does he pay you regularly?" " Sure." "The "Bourgeois of Calais" are nearly done." "And you, what are you doing in all this?" "Since you met Rodin you've done no work of your own." "That's not true." "He's more concerned about my future than I am." "This is December." "If you haven't begun, you'll never be ready for the Salon." " You've exhibited nothing yet this year." " I've learned to work faster from him." "My daughter didn't wait for Rodin in order to exist!" "Don't ever forget that we're different." "That we're the Claudels." "You always worked faster and better than others." "Remember, Boucher told us you must exhibit to become known." " There's no other way." " I know, Papa." "Look at me, darling." "Lift your eyes." "Your future belongs to you." "Also, don't be seen too much with Mister Rodin." "People might gossip." "Sorry I'm late." "You can see your sister later." "She's here for good." "You're welcome." "Let's go to the table." "This lunch meant so much to Camille." "What a cook that Rose is!" "Winter will be rough." "Whenever I'm still hungry, I eat the bread." "Thank you, I'm fine." "And if we wrote this letter to my friend in Foreign Affairs together?" "This way." "Madame, I am pleased to announce that you are pregnant." "I know you'll overeat again." "It takes your health, it makes you no good." "Those people don't even understand your work." " Let the Mayor of Calais come here." " It's the whole Town Council of Calais!" "Enough social gatherings!" "This is no life for me!" "Go meet your Minister of Fine-Arts alone!" "Good trip." "Glad to see you!" "Camille!" "Marry me." "Dear Rodin..." "I can't come to Calais." "I have no hat or shoes." "Tenho as botas gastas e não tenho nada que vista para a ocasião." "So excuse me and don't accuse me of bad faith." "I began a portrait of you." "From the earth, I will make a plaster mold." "When that's dry, I'll just need to break it open to see you." "Camille." "I sleep naked, to believe that you are here." "But when I wake up, it's not the same thing." "Above all, don't be unfaithful to me." "Whore!" "You'll never get him!" "He's mine!" "Without your hands, what would you do?" "Next time, I'll kill you." "Traitor, scoundrel, sold, drunk, vampire, worm... lazy, pig, greedy, stingy, scoundrel... rascal, blackmailer... rabble, wholesale mumps, repugnant, senile, intellectual... thief, scheming, idiotic, asshole, Jewish, Huguenot... shameless, livid..." "Stop, Camille." "You have fever." "You should go to bed." "Enough, Schwob." "Naughty." "Priest, Zola, garbage, poison..." "See you tomorrow." "Good evening." "filthy, freemason... defender of the Commune, turncoats." "Daddy, it's for you." "Camille has disappeared." "She left everything in Folie Neubourg." "She has disappeared." "What is it now?" "You have just come home and they're already bothering you." " Nobody's seen her in 3 days." " There's nothing I can do tonight." " Let him say, if he has anything to say." " Leave me in peace!" "Girl with marbles." "Go get the others!" "Striking, isn't it, Limet?" "Alchemy." "Magic." " I never saw a self-portrait like that." " Almost expected to have heat." "A cruel look at yourself, you must look, gentlemen." "An artist believes his own eyes." "Many pupils have done my bust." "This one is the most beautiful." "I'll exhibit it everywhere." "Imagine!" "From memory!" "She did it from memory!" "She did it in your absence?" "Miss Claudel has become a master." "She has the talent of a man who has a lot of it." "She's a witch!" "It's magnificent." "Completely premonitory." "That's the head that I'll have in ten years." "It's magnificent." "Did something happen?" "You have your head in bad days." "Where were you, my love?" "Choose, Rodin." "Your wife, or me." "Rose is not my wife." "What's wrong with you?" "Jealous of an old attachment?" "It's not like you and me." "We are two rebellions of nature." "Of the same race." "You dream, Rodin." "You think you live an idyll in a castle..." "We're two ghosts in a wasteland." "What are you talking about?" "With you, I want peace..." "oblivion... work..." "Will you leave her?" "If only I could, Camille." "If only I could." "Leave her, I beg you." "Leave her." "I'm the one you love." "Tell me I'm the one you love." "You love me!" "Do you?" "You love me!" "Don't let the worst happen to us." "Please." "There are different ways of loving." "You're funny." "What do you want me to do?" "Fire her, like a maid?" "I'll speak to her." "Give me time." "Give me time to prepare her." "I'm all she has." "Is she the one you love?" "That's it?" " It's her." " Rose is ill, you hear?" "She's ill." "You are different than I imagined." "I'll leave you." "Tomorrow I'll send for my things and my pay." "You're a true tyrant!" "I took care of your "Bourgeois" day and night." "Now I'll work for myself." "All right, let's go." "You move in and go through my things." "You believe in God, Paul?" "If you think I am proud to be a Catholic!" "Did you convert?" "You have become completely crazy." " No, I became a believer." " Why did you hide it all this time?" "If you think I haven't been worrying what Daddy would say!" ""Another of my son's whims!"" "I was in agony." "You would all have laughed." "Remember, the whole family obeyed you when you announced we should stop attending mass." "That's not your only reason for not telling us." "Not the only reason." "I want to write, Camille." "I want to write." "I want to be successful." "It won't be easy to be a Catholic, a poet and a diplomat, all at one time." "You can laugh if you like!" "But the man with no faith will never be a great artist." "God exists." "He saved me from despair and I need Him to be myself." "I'll be who I am without any help." "All this year, I have prayed for you with a terrible urgency." "I had an abortion, Paul." "An abortion!" "My poor Camille..." "Are you going to leave him?" "Let me stay here a while." "I won't bother you." "I will sleep on the couch." "I don't want to go back home." "I promise I won't see him again." "I don't want to see him again." "I don't want to see him again." "Hail Mary, full of Grace." "Blessed art Thou among women." "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners..." " I got you a house near here." " Good." "You care about me, Paul." "You care about about everything." "You know what is the opposite of conversion?" "Recreation!" "Goodbye." "You could at least buy a mirror for me." "No, no." "After the growing intensity of "tout," the voice descends into "helas."" "It's the piano that ends in the lower register." "From the beginning." "Gentleman..." "CAMILLE CLAUDEL SCULPTRESS" "The most beautiful girl in Paris in the most beautiful courtyard in Paris." "You have a rich imagination and a steady hand." " I must go, Mademoiselle." " Thank you." " Eugène Blot." " Schwob." "Debussy." "Well?" "Well?" "So, that ranges of naked women erect to the sky..." " I kissed Sakountala!" " We all wanted to kiss her." "Yes, but I did it!" "Groups of women..." "the nose crashed into the earth." "I know you heard horrible things." " Kiss me." " No comment, Mister Debussy." "Let's be clear:" "I do the business, you do the sculpting." "I'm sure that I have orders for that two pieces." "I'll make the sales, take my percentage... and we're even." "Of course, the first bronzes will be for you." " Take this advance." "You need it." " Thank you." "Thank you, Mister Blot." "Have mercy..." "Camille, there might be an official order for you." "Do you hear?" "Camille!" "At least, go and see Morhardt." "Camille, forgive me." "Camille!" "Open the door!" " Goodbye." " Look for Louise and the baby." "Bundle up, Paul." "It's very cold in America." "And watch out in the streets." "They have gangsters." "Savages... cowboys..." "Good luck, Paul." "God bless you." "God keep you." "Assert yourself!" "I'll miss you." "I will succeed, too." "When you return, you will be proud of me." "Write to me." "We will meet again as before." "As before!" "Your brother's been sent to New York." "We have decided to give you your dowry." "You've dipped into it considerably." "But the remaining will be useful..." "At last we're leaving Paris after those years of hard work that poisoned our tranquility." " If you really need to, come with us to Villeneuve." " There's no shame." "Many unmarried girls do it." "My magazine wants to interview her." "Do you think it's possible?" "She is the most important artist of the present." "I heard Miss Claudel works for her own now?" "I showed her where to find gold, but the gold she finds is hers." "Obviously I'm not very happy." "I feel that I've become a stranger to myself." "There's always something missing that torments me." "Your voice has changed the most." "Nothing that's monstrous is foreign to me." "At least you know how to live, all your intrigues, you can't deny it." "You can be so nasty at times." "I find that you're not well." "Your "Balzac" is a noble idea, Auguste Rodin." "That's not the general opinion." "That statue has made me the laughing stock of Paris." "My Balzac..." "I'll end up putting it in my garden." "Stay with me." "I want to make love to you." "Your musician, Debussy, was a good lover?" "Shut up." "In fact, I hate music." "Why don't you touch me?" "Let me discover your work, will you?" " Why?" "Are you afraid I've surpassed you?" " No, no." "Copied me, perhaps." "Calm down..." "Be gentle." "People say you're not well but when I see the amount of work you did!" " Won't you look?" " No, I'd rather feel it first." "With your courage..." "your colossal willpower..." "You make me want to kick over the traces." "I feel like I've brought home a bailiff." "You can't..." "No." "You can't..." "I told you the trouble I've had over "Balzac." If you complete this one, there'll be more scandal." "How can you reduce what we shared to that image?" "You show me as a spineless puppet torn apart by two women." " That's a vile caricature!" " What do you want?" "I want you to do what I tell you to do!" "And you know very well!" "Do something other than what I do?" "I intend to follow my path." "I acquired this right!" "If it means ridiculing me, destroying me then you must give it up." "You have to submit your ideas to me, whatever they are." "There is no comparison between you and me!" " What?" " Never!" "You're a third-rate sculptor." "You attack violently, the third-rate sculptor." "Everything comes from me, nothing from you." "You fight too much for your sculpture." "It speaks for itself." " Why are you jealous?" " Jealous?" " Yes." " Jealous, me?" "I make sculptures of life, not death!" "You despise life." "You search for pain." "You get drunk on pain." "And you create pain." "You portray yourself as a victim." "A martyr." "But you're the one who left me." "It was impossible to live with you!" "Frankly..." "Listen, Camille." "The work we did together was good." "I always felt that we had to live as equals." "All the work I did for you was good!" ""Miss Claudel, Rodin's pupil!" "She picks up Rodin's scraps..."" ""and crams them into her sculptures!" You allowed them to say it!" "My God." "After all you're my worst enemy." "I found you out." "You stole it all!" "My youth, my work!" "Everything!" " You accuse me of wasting your life?" " I wish I'd never met you!" "I'd rather be in an asylum!" "That's where you'd like to put me!" "You're completely drunk!" "Completely drunk." "You've started drinking." "Everyone says so." "If I didn't drink they'd all know you put me in this state." "So let them think I'm in this state because I drink!" "Camille, I'm a well-known professional sculptor." "I'm backing you." "I know the fools are against you." "What do you mean, professional?" "What does that mean, running three studios at once?" "Socializing instead of putting your hand in clay?" "Driving your workers on marble while you add the finishing touches!" "As an artist, you're surprised that I refuse this system?" "Stop this gossip!" "Slander!" "Stop confusing everything!" "Confusion?" "Do not talk to me of confusion!" "You support politicians in defense of your work." "I'm neither for nor against Dreyfus!" "If only you believed in your side..." "When I heard you were pro-Dreyfus... just for your personal gains, for your Balzac..." "So you could finally exhibit, then I turned against Dreyfus!" "That's enough!" "Stop." "It's ridiculous!" "Such a waste!" "When I met you, you were for me, the most desirable woman in the world." "You, sculptor!" "You who caressed my naked stomach and didn't even realize it had changed." "Had I known you expected a child I'd have married you." "For years... you didn't want..." "You never wanted to choose..." " You never decided anything." " I never loved anyone but you." "I couldn't share you." "It was a struggle for me." "What should I tell you?" "You made a mistake, that's all." "It's finished." "Finished, the sentimental complications, I no longer want." "Enter the tyranny of emotions I can't anymore." "On your deathbed you'll still hesitate!" "Why?" "Why?" "Why?" " There's nothing left." " Yes, but..." " What will you do?" " I need the money." " You're crazy!" " You'll never get it inside." " What about the landlord?" " What about him?" "It's only wood." " Thank you, Robert." " Goodbye, Mademoiselle." "You're wrong to think it's about you." "You're a sculptor, Rodin, not a sculpture." "You ought to know." "I am that old woman with nothing on her bones." "And the girl who no longer finds the youth is also me." "And the man is me, too." "Not you." "I gave him my toughness." "He gave me his emptiness in return." "There you are..." "three times me." "The Holy Trinity, trinity of emptiness." "How did you know there were people inside the big white rock?" "You have a stomach ache?" "Want to see my father?" "He is a doctor." "They poisoned my food." "The poison enters my body." "I'm cold in the back." "I'm like a cabbage that is eaten by the caterpillars." "Hardly grows in me a leaf, they eat it." "His loneliness makes him afraid of losing the ability to speak... so he speaks loudly to calm down." "It is not worth screaming." "It is better to work in a disguised form." "But above all, no names." "Can appear there, all of them!" " Will come to threaten me." " But who?" "Him..." "You know of whom I speak." "You lied to me!" "Why you lied to me?" "You told me you would take my sculpture with three characters for the Universal Exhibition, right?" "I swear, it was never a question of the Exposition of 1900." "Listen, Miss Claudel." "I was the first one who wrote about you, defended you." "I do not need to be defended, but recognized." "But you are." "The order for "The Age of Maturity" is official." "But not for the Universal Exhibition." "This is a machination of Rodin." "I am sure!" "Whenever he can, Rodin helps you." "He has the highest regard for the artist you are." "He wants the glory for you." "Believe me, I'm in no mood to be held back by Rodin's gang." "He brags about being more powerful than a minister." "And he prints my portrait on postcards even though I forbid!" "And the bust I made of him!" "Anywhere, anyhow, he exposes it, without my permission!" "His head!" "It's all he cares about." "And the erotic sketches!" "You go too far!" "Rodin isn't your enemy." "You must calm down." "You've assailed us with your letters and demands for too long." "Who do you think you are?" "Don't you know who I am?" "Or are you pretending?" "What kind of behavior is this?" "You're crazy!" "I'm Camille Claudel!" "And if you don't know it, I'll show you!" " Doctor Michaux!" " Stop it, drop her!" "This is scandalous!" " I'm Doctor Michaux." "What is this?" " A search warrant, sir." " We're reclaiming state property." " It's a plot by the Rodin gang." "The State paid for your work." "Monsieur Morhardt gave you the check." "I burned the check." "Nobody can keep me from making another one." "Nobody can keep me from making another one." "Ninguém me pode impedir de voltar a fazê-Io!" "Rodin!" "Rodin!" "Rodin!" "Rodin!" "Capitalist!" "It's your devil, Camille, again!" "Rodin!" "Exploiter of the poor!" "You have to come out of your house now." "You hear?" "You'll have to walk through garbage to get out." "You hear me?" "Rodin!" "É altura de nos mudarmos." " My daughter!" " Father!" "It's not possible." "Your eyes are dark blue, my child." "You look terrible." "Louise couldn't reach you." "Your brother also tried to see you during his last visit." "He was in Paris?" " Is that in America?" " Fou Tcheou." "He travels a great deal." "He's a vice consul." "It's beautiful." "I wanted so much to go to China with him." "He'll be well-known." "He's a great poet." " I neglected him for too long." " I know, Daddy." "I always took up too much room." " Have I disappointed you?" " Yes, but I'll always love you." ""I wanted not to weep"" ""and to get up to walk,"" ""but man only goes forward."" ""Until he has to stop."" ""And his bones well up in his eyes, out of that sea..."" ""which, in all chests, rises to the same level."" ""Where did I go wrong?" "Where is my fault?"" ""If they cut off my hands and feet..."" ""..." "I'll offer you the stumps."" ""I'll come toward you on my bones, toward you..."" "I'm ashamed I'm ashamed." "Paul has found God." "He's come to terms with that." "Good terms." "And you, what will you have, when I'm gone?" ""Am I made of stone?"" ""The leaves of the trees seem to be made of linen or plate"" ""and the air, a decoration that can be admired or not."" ""And the sun, whose first rays once made me sing"" ""Like a stone thrown against bronze"" ""Let it be born, to me is the same"" ""as seeing a of cow lung hanging at the door of the butcher."" ""Why live?"" ""Doesn't matter if I live or die!"" "Mother!" ""It's painful."" ""Today I have to show who I am."" ""Alone."" ""Everyone!"" ""I will walk,"" ""I will smite the bestial face of a clenched fist."" ""I will speak to this House of scoundrels and cowards."" ""I'll die or I'll create my own empire."" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "Hello!" "My dear Paul..." "I have many new ideas that will please you." "Three figures listening to another, behind a screen." "A young girl on a bench, crying." "Her parents watch, stunned." "I get great pleasure from working." "In next year's salon, the group of three if I'm done, will be in large scale." "I have another group head, you'll find amazing." "You see that this is not Rodin's." "It is dressed." "You never tell me what you're writing." "Are you writing new books?" "Several friends told me to buy, "Tete d'Or."" "It's been terribly cold lately." "I keep a fire going all night." "If you can spare any money for heat it would help." "Thank you for the onyx." "I hear the crash of green water." "Hurry and come see all this." "I hold your hands." "Camille." "You're the only one to whom I've confided all this." "Don't show this to anyone." "Miss Claudel!" "Miss Claudel!" "I come on behalf of Eugene Blot." "Rodin sent you?" "Ah yes, it is his mistress." "I've seen you together." "Oh no, he is a friend of my father." "I am Judith Cladel, I'm a journalist." "I am writing a biography of Rodin." "Claudel, Cladel, definitely ..." "My magazine would love to publish an interview with you." "Do the cats talk." "Rodin said that he showed you where to look for gold, but the gold found is yours." "Rodin..." "In an article he wrote, Morhardt calls you an artist without equal." " What do you think of this honor?" " But what a pleasant..." "Millionaires attacking a defenseless artist." "Write it down." "The exploitation of women, signed Camille Claudel." "You seem to be angry with Rodin and M. Morhardt." "But they were close to you?" "I promise you there will be nothing unpleasant." "I tell you what to write." "You all missed promised." "To me, zero plus zero equals zero." "Perhaps Rodin think I died, but I did not die and I still need money." " Sacrifice everything ..." " See here my onyx." "I myself poly them, and an onyx stone is impossible." "Untouchable." "I am here to help and this article can be very useful for you." "You can pay me the model, mold, molding, marble, coal?" "My statues belong to everyone but me." "You can leave if you didn't come here to give me your money." "I need to dump my anger over who appear." "Worse for you!" "And if I'm wrong and you didn't come in the name of Rodin, I apologize." "But if you came in name of Rodin, my studio is closed." "I regret." "Goodbye." "Give compliments to Rodin." " Good evening, Judith." " Good evening, master." "She's there, knock!" "Before they drive her out." "The residents are complaining." "I have no courage." "This is for the income." "Tell him that her brother comes home this summer." "Mademoiselle Claudel!" "Mademoiselle Claudel!" "Are you drunk?" "Enough, Camille." "Enough!" "My God, you've changed!" "Haven't you seen the river rising?" "The Saint-Louis Island has been evacuated." "They want to drown me now." "The way you carry on!" "Rodin has made an order of ten busts of him, and you refused." "You're the only artist invited to Prague with him... you don't go!" "Have some courage, damn it!" "Your behavior is irresponsible." "You hear?" "Irresponsible!" "To complete the picture you mail cat shit to the Minister of Culture and accuse Rodin of stealing the Mona Lisa." "Bravo." "Very funny." "Very, very funny!" "Stop these morbid pranks." "Go out!" "Be seen!" "React intelligently instead of burying yourself alive." " This is suicide, Camille." " I'm afraid." "I'm afraid of being robbed!" "I'm afraid!" " I'm afraid." "I'm afraid..." " Everyone is afraid one time or another." "But... with me..." "it's all the time." "There are people..." "who are bothered by me..." "I bother some people who don't forgive me for being so gifted." "No, listen, Camille." "We haven't met for a long time." "What new treasures you've made!" "01:01:19," "This little piece..." "it's monumental!" " You mean "The Chatterboxes"?" " You call it that?" "Or "The Gossips."" "Sakountala in marble." "And that little girl..." "Look, I'll give you six months to create a new piece for me, large-scale." "I'll molde the pieces of your choice and I will organize... an exhibition devoted solely to you." "I want to show how sublime you are." "You look like Donkey Skin." "I love Donkey Skin." "It is the Court of Miracles here." "I'll arrange it all." "First, the cats." "Don't move." "I'll be back." "I'll carry you to the boat." "Even before seeing, the child fidgets with her little hands full of life." "The almost maternal joy of wet earth between your fingers?" "The art of shaping, of holding between the ten fingers these round forms, these living things you see around you." "This is the moment you first feel the urge, when you're happy with the toys." "Camille Claudel is the first to create this type of inner sculpture." "Unthinking critics have compared her art to that of someone else... whose name I shall not mention." "Indeed, one can not imagine a more total and flagrant opposition." "The art of that sculptor is the heaviest and most material possible." "Some of his figures can't even get free of the clay in which they are petrified." "When they aren't crawling, hugging the mud in a kind of erotic furor then each, clasping another body, seeks to recreate the primitive mass." "Impenetrable and compact... the group reflects the light like a marker." "In short..." "Bravo, Paul!" "Bravo!" "Bravo, Paul!" "She's frightening!" "How embarrassing for her brother." "You're a wonderful poet, Monsieur Claudel." "Wonderful!" "She will never have a stylish clientele." "You've seen "The Gossips"?" "It's so small it fits in your hand, like a secret." "Eugene Blot, thank you!" "Thank you, It's a triumph!" "She doesn't have a style..." "Of course she's eccentric..." "It's from Camille." "She made this dress for this occasion, so don't take her wrong." "The parade of Mardi Gras is disgusting." "In a whirlwind, it occurs only trash." "Still, Camille's work isn't at all like Rodin's sleazy pawing." "Getting over Rodin has been hard on her, you know." "She staked everything on him, and she lost everything." "My sister." "My sister..." " Is a mystery in full light." " I'd like a photo..." "There are ways to get along with the mystery, a hint." "I'm leaving, Blot!" "Without saying good-bye to her?" "The reviews were mostly good." "They just stayed away from your "Perseus"." "They found it too disturbing." "Some felt you portrayed yourself as having a severed head." " They've no right to criticize my statue." " Camille, you've struggled alone." "You are the most authentic sculptor of our time." "Just disregard the salon clique." "I sold nothing but I will." "I'm not discouraged." "Impossible that your art does not touch the lovers because it tears my heart out." "They scoff at you because they can't destroy you." "The genius is always a fear for his time." "I should have bought dresses, hats, instead of indulging my passion for dubious edifices." "No, Camille." "Your art is so great, nobody understands it anymore." "I love you, Blot." "Send me the marbles..." "No, only the plasters." "Keep the marble pieces." "Keep the bronzes, too." "Auguste!" "Auguste!" "Robert, go speak to her yourself." "It's Robert!" " It's Robert!" " Open up!" "You!" "Open up!" "What a shame to use a child!" "Okay, Robert, where is your father?" "All they do is sleep!" "I am a sculptor, sir!" "I get my ideas at night." "That's it!" "Good-bye, Robert." "MARCH 3, 1913" "When I think of how he suffered when he learned the truth about her and Rodin!" "Such arrogance!" "Living with him like a kept woman!" "I don't even dare say what I think!" "She made fun of us!" "Still, I can't abandon my daughter." "Something must be done quickly." ""I, the undersigned, doctor of medicine, certify that Camille"" ""Claudel suffers from severe mental problems."" "MARCH 8, 1913" ""That she wears rags..." "certainly never washes herself..."" ""That she has sold almost all her furniture..."" ""...although she receives from her family who also pay for her rent..."" ""...200 francs per month, with which she could live comfortably..."" ""That she lives in isolation, in a locked room, without air..." ""...having sealed the windows several months ago."" "She amounted to nothing." "I amounted to something." "She didn't." ""She evidently is still terrified of Rodin's gang."" "All the gifts Nature gave her brought only unhappiness." "It's a total catastrophe." "My sister is swallowed up." ""...and a danger to her neighbor necessitates her confinement to a mental hospital."" "MARCH 10, 1913" "All these ordeals in one week." "The death of my husband..." "my daughter..." "It's horrible." "When she's better, you can take her home..." "VILLE EVRARD PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL" "My little Paul..." "You came to see me in May... and I promised to take better care of me." "Madhouses are made to inflict suffering." "It can't be helped especially if you never see anyone." "They try to force me to sculpt here." "They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me." "Don't forget, Paul your sister is in prison with crazy people." "Mama wrote the doctor that I mean to harm you." "That I detest you and am out to hurt you." "It's not true." "I wish she would take me to Villeneuve with her." "Do you think I enjoy spending months, years... like this, without any news, or hope?" "Where does such ferocity come from?" "What can I do to change?" "I'd really like to know." "You might as well send me to Siberia." "Did you take care of my things?" "Are they in Villeneuve?" "Be careful they don't fall into Rodin's hands." "He's so afraid I might come back." "That's why he's keeping me here, isn't it, Paul?" "I would so like to go home and close the door tightly." "I don't know if I'll be able to realize this dream: to be home." "Oh, God, I wish I were in Villeneuve." "Your sister in exile." "Because of the war Camille Claudel was transferred to the asylum at Montdevergues on September 9, 1914." "She died there on October 19, 1943, after thirty years of confinement."