Looking for love for half a lifetime, and finally giving a lifetime for love.

Monique 2022-09-30 00:27:55

The 1988 film, even if you watch it again at the Shanghai Film Festival in 2019, has a sense of timelessness. Sure enough, a good film will never fade due to the passage of time. Before watching this movie, what impressed Adjani the most was the crazy and psychedelic performance in "Infatuation" (well...actually, I really didn't understand the movie), which made it difficult to follow the bright and dazzling performance. Goddess Adjani is connected, and after Rodin's lover, she really has the urge to worship Goddess Adjani.

To be honest, for an ordinary audience like me who pays attention to the plot, the first half of the film is long and lacks emotional foreshadowing, so that I once had the feeling that this is just a not-so-excellent reportage, but from the middle of the film, I have Completely captivated by Adjani's performance, from being an independent, stubborn, gifted artist, to being unable to accept betrayal just as a soulmate's lover, to being a delusional person who is lonely and afraid of being forgotten, she is absolutely delicate but wild. The way of acting completely conquered me. When she has a pink and white face and dresses like a cheap doll at her exhibition, attracting everyone's attention with her exaggerated voice and language, but only seeing jokes and ridicule in the eyes of others , she was afraid, maybe after she became his lover, whether she created it with him or created to get rid of his shadow, she could no longer be completely divorced from him. Whether she benefits from love or is destroyed by losing herself in love, she may not even be able to tell.

Even if you cut off your limbs, my bones will still support you.

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Camille Claudel quotes

  • Robert: [while looking at Camille's sculpture] How did you know there were people inside the big white rock?

  • Auguste Rodin: The human body is a world that moves. It's life!