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(In French, with English subtitles) Camille Claudel was a successful sculptor and the lover of Auguste Rodin in early 20^th century France.  When she and Rodin parted ways, Claudel began to fall apart and was eventually committed to a mental hospital in 1913, by her poet brother, Paul Claudel.  Here we are, two years into institutionalization, viewing three days of her life.  Filmed in a real institution, with staff and residents played by themselves, the movie in its own slow-moving and repetitive way grows into a portrait of a complex and troubled woman, for whom our sorrow grows as each minute passes.  Director Dumont based the movie on actual medical records and letters by Claudel, giving the movie a sense of reality often lost in the dramatic reenactments of other historical films.

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