![]() ![]() She was abandoned-that for me was the worst thing.” The cruelty of her family was incredible. It was worse than a prison and she was living in the cold. She was this amazing, talented woman, full of life, full of will and she ended up spending 30 years in an asylum in terrible conditions. “Before she went to the asylum, she was putting chains around herself so people couldn't come and take her away. “With paranoia, often the subject of love becomes the subject of hate and Camille had moments of crisis,” Binoche notes. ![]() By all accounts, Camille was not mentally ill, just a little unhinged and paranoid after the demise of her long affair with sculptor Auguste Rodin and her doubts regarding herself as an artist. Written by Dumont, the screenplay is based on correspondence between Camille and her younger brother Paul, a poet, dramatist and diplomat, and is set two years after Camille's internment, when Paul comes to visit with the decision regarding whether she can leave the asylum. “When we started to discuss the film, he told me how he wanted me to improvise, so I insisted on working with a coach for two weeks beforehand-or there was no way I would do it!” she cackles. “I really admire Bruno's films and a year and a half ago I went to see him,” Binoche recalls. Yet, when La Binoche called, he couldn't resist. In the past, French minimalist Dumont had only worked with unknowns or non-actors and is hardly taken with anyone telling him what to do. Her first Hollywood blockbuster aside-she plays the mother of Aaron Taylor-Johnson's lead protagonist in next year's Godzilla-Binoche tends to pitch ideas to directors she wants to work with, or at least she contacts the contenders herself. She wanted to be independent in a culture where there was no space for a woman ![]() A painter herself, Binoche created all of her character's paintings during the seven-week shoot. While Binoche regains her usual radiance in her more recent offering, Fred Schepisi's romance, Words & Pictures, her art instructor suffers with rheumatoid arthritis. Although beautifully preserved in real life, she looks positively haggard in close-up in her new movie, Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel, 1915, which is set over three days during the French sculptor's later years in a mental asylum. Juliette Binoche is always on the lookout for something new and dangerous, and at 49, she remains as brave as ever. ![]()
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