RODIN
Filmfest 2017
PT: AUGUSTE RODIN
France 2017
Original version with German subtitles
(Original: French)
German Premiere
Director: Jacques Doillon
Section: Spotlight
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), man of the people, autodidact and revolutionary sculptor – the most brilliant of his era. At 42, Rodin 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 also recounts the artist's numerous affairs with assistants and models, as well as his relationship with Rose Beuret, his lifelong partner. We discover Rodin as an erotically charged sensualist, for whom art is a profoundly sexual delight – a sculptor of flesh in movement, who gives life to the very stone itself.
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Izïa Higelin, Séverine Caneele, Bernard Verley, Anders Danielsen Lie
Credits
Screenplay: Jacques Doillon
Director of Photography: Christophe Beaucarne
Film Editor: Fréderic Fichefet
Composer: Philippe Sarde
Production Designer: Katia Wyszkop
Costume Design: Pascaline Chavanne
Sound: Erwan Kerzanet
Producer: Kristina Larsen
Production Company: Les Films du Lendemain, Artémis Productions
Co-Producer: Patrick Quinet
Co-Production Company: Wild Bunch, France 3 Cinéma, RTBF, VOO & Be TV, Shelter Prod
Distributor: Wild Bunch Germany
Director: Jacques Doillon
biography
Jacques Doillon was born in Paris in 1944. After studying linguistics, he worked as AD and editor for filmmakers including Alain Robbe-Grillet. He shot his first feature, utopian comedy L’AN 01, together with Alain Resnais and Jean Rouch in 1972, followed by his solo debut TOUCHED IN THE HEAD 1974. FILMFEST MÜNCHEN has screened his films FOR A YES OR FOR A NO (1988), THE 15 YEAR OLD GIRL (1989), PONETTE (1996) and LITTLE BROTHERS (1998).
