Camille Claudel Page #5

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But, Papa, he's too busy.

He can't come.

I wrote to him. We'll see...

Tell the priest I still

want to tear down his church.

Louis Prosper!

Stop tormenting that poor priest.

Have a good trip!

See you Sunday.

Monsieur Rodin. I beg you...

don't come to Villeneuve.

Notice the curves

of the steeple.

Delighted, Madame Rodin.

We wanted to thank you...

We feel honored...

How was your trip?

Camille! Our guests are here.

We used to live here all year...

...but my husband works

in Rambouillet now.

And then,

Camille dragged us to Paris.

Here's Camille...

I know...

May I present my brother,

Paul...

Delighted.

Sensual pleasures

are everywhere...

The color of the foliage...

...the quality of the sky...

Stop! Rose will catch on.

I don't care.

Silence!

If only we had

lettuce like this in Paris!

You flatter my wife.

It's her garden.

I grow tomatoes on my balcony.

Rose is full of ideas.

I don't want to see them.

You should have stopped him.

And he brought her!

I'll never forgive you.

Do you want to wash up?

Exactly.

Follow me.

Wear out the earth...

Aren't you glad to see me?

Why did you come?

It's horrid. I'm ashamed.

It's a good way to keep time.

To be precise, Madame...

...this poor priest

keeps us informed...

...of all his

pitiful activities.

Are you a practicing Catholic?

I do as Monsieur Rodin does.

And what does Monsieur Rodin do?

This may surprise you,

but I almost became a monk.

I was young.

My older sister...

...Maria, whom I adored...

...became a nun...

after a promise of marriage

fell through...

She died of grief.

After her death

I entered the monastery.

I began leading her life.

To my surprise, my Confessor

asked me to do his portrait.

By making me sculpt,

he brought me back to life.

To my life, I mean.

It's a miracle that...

...he recognized the difference

between grief and a vocation.

No doubt...

I think I'd do the same thing.

You?

You'd become a nun?

I would stop...

What arrogance!

From whom do you get it?

Camille is not arrogant.

She just won't settle for less...

than she thinks she deserves.

When she's violent...

it's only because she's impassioned.

As a child...

...she used to model

human skeletons out of clay.

Then she'd bake them in the oven.

And she'd forget to eat and sleep.

It was amazing.

When she's touchy...

it's because she's uncompromising.

Monsieur Rodin must have

realized this.

Isn't that so,

Monsieur Rodin?

Ah, temperament!

Where do we get our temperament?

We don't know what it is,...

but we do know what it does!

On the "Gates of Hell"

I'm three years behind.

So, if I don't want to be

hounded by bureaucrats...

I must have help.

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