Films with: Dumont, Bruno

Camille Claudel 1915

Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille 's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics. Suffering from bouts of paranoia, she focuses on her art and her family as pillars of sanity, until those too begin to crumble.

DVD 13406

Vie de Jésus The life of Jesus /

Life of Jesus follows the life of 20-year-old Freddy. When he's not at the hospital getting treatment for his epilepsy, Freddy spends his free time--and he has plenty of it--hanging out with his pals. The boys have had little schooling and are chronically unemployed. For entertainment, they race around town and through the French countryside on their motorbikes. Life changes for Freddy when Kader, the teenage son of an Arab family, enters the picture. Freddy and his friends are already threatened by Kader for being gainfully employed when none of them can find a job. When the fearless Kader stubbornly and aggressiveley pursues Marie, Freddy's girlfriend, Freddy and his pals take out their latent jealousy and anger in an astonsihing way, which dramatically alters all of their lives.

DVD 728