François Truffaut directs Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson and Sylvia Marriott in this true period drama of a young French woman who runs away across the globe to pursue a soldier who spurned her.

Sad and stilted oblivion. We get another beautiful / unhinged lead performance from Adjani. Wow! There is no one else like her. To see someone so china doll pretty and fragile destroy themselves through obsession became the actress’ trademark. She makes Huppert seem warm. This isn’t quite Possession, it even feels a little too much like a limited mini series at times in terms of production values. Told with an icy factual bluntness.

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Perfect Double Bill: Camille Claudel (1988)

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