CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 on DVD

Cole Smithey

Kino Lorber Will Release
CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915,
Award-Winning Biopic from
acclaimed director
Bruno Dumont (L'Humanité, Flanders)
and Starring Academy Award®-Winner
Juliette Binoche

Available on DVD on March 25th

"BINOCHE IS SPELLBINDING … A GENUINE STAR TURN."
– James Verniere, BOSTON HERALD

"MS. BINOCHE'S PORTRAYAL OF CAMILLE IS ONE OF THE MOST WRENCHING PERFORMANCES SHE HAS GIVEN."
– Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK, NY – March 6, 2014 – Kino Lorber is pleased to announce the release of the award-winning historical biopic CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 on DVD on March 25th. Academy Award® winning actress Juliette Binoche stars as artist Camille Claudel who is confined to a psychiatric asylum by her family. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Bruno Dumont (L'Humanité, Flanders), CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival and was awarded the 2013 FIPRESCI Prize and the Special Jury Prize at the Istanbul International Film Festival and the 2013 Special Jury Prize for Best European Feature at the 2013 Brussels European Film Festival. Binoche was awarded Best Actress at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival for her performance in the film. The film was also nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin and the Prix Louis Delluc for Best Film.

CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 will be released on DVD on March 25th with a SRP of $29.95.

Claudel – groundbreaking female artist, protégé and former mistress of Auguste Rodin – no longer sculpts. Confined to an asylum in the South of France during the winter of 1915, she awaits her brother Paul's visit. In the meantime, Claudel struggles not only with her mental health, but also with being denied the independence and freedom of her former life.

In CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915, Academy Award®-winning actress Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) gives one of her "most wrenching performances" (The New York Times) as the protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, during the time 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, writer/director Bruno Dumont (Humanité) focuses on Camille's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics.

Suffering from bouts of paranoia (she believes Rodin is poisoning her), she focuses on her art and her family as pillars of sanity, until those too begin to crumble. Dumont shot the film in a real asylum with a supporting cast of actual patients and their nurses, highlighting the thin line between the insane and those who treat them. With a stunning performance from Binoche, CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 "works beautifully" (Time Out NY).

CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 is the seventh feature from acclaimed director Bruno Dumont, the award-winning filmmaker whose previous films include The Life of Jesus(1997, which won Best Film at the London Film Festival, won the Prix Jean Vigo, won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival, and won the Golden Camera-Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival); L'Humanité (1999, winner of Grand Prize of the Jury, Best Actor and Best Actress awards at Cannes), Twentynine Palms (2003, which won the José Luis Guarner Critic's Award – Special Mention and was nominated for Best Film at Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival), Flanders (2006, winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury and nominated for Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival),Hadewijch (2009, winner of the International Critics' Award [FIPRESCI] at the Toronto International Film Festival), and Outside Satan (2011, nominated for the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes).

Camille Claudel 1915

Director: Bruno Dumont

Genre: Drama

DVD Street Date: March 25, 2014

DVD SRP: $29.95

UPC: 738329127626

Technical Specs:

France | 2013 | 95 Min. | Color | 2.35:1 | In French with optional English subtitles

Camille Claudel 1915 - Trailer

About Kino Lorber:

With a library of 800 titles, Kino Lorber Inc. has been a leader in independent art house distribution for over 30 years, releasing over 25 films per year theatrically under its Kino Lorber, Kino Classics, and Alive Mind Cinema banners, including four Academy Award® nominated films in the last six years. In addition, the company brings over 70 titles each year to the home entertainment market with DVD and Blu-ray releases under its 5 house brands, distributes a growing number of third party labels, and is a direct digital distributor to all major platforms including iTunes, Netflix, HULU, Amazon and others.