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This Valentine’s week, love, sincere, passionate, impossible, ambiguous… The one engraved in marble by Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin. That of football and the piano, between mythical “remontada” and atypical concerto. The one we should give to these migrants who jostle at the Franco-Italian border. That of the fatherland professed by this Russian spy arrested in New York in 2010 and sent back to Moscow, where Putin welcomed her as a heroine…
Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, the story of an all-consuming passion
Exclusive love, threesomes, devouring passion: in this month of Valentine’s Day, “Secrets d’histoire” is in tune and recounts the devouring affair that united, for twelve years, Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel. From the first look, in 1884, at the deposit of the marbles, in Paris, until their separation, desired by the sculptress, her internment in 1913, and her death, thirty years later.
For Rodin, there is a before and an following Camille Claudel. From the magnificent Château de l’Islette, built in 1530 on the banks of the Indre, in Touraine, which hosted the fiery escapades of the two lovers, Stéphane Bern devotes a large first part to this “before”: how the young man confronted his father to let him study drawing; how he failed the Beaux-Arts competition three times; his meeting with Rose Beuret, the love of his life. Alternating testimonies, visits, archives and fictional sequences (with Lou Gala and Louis Bernard), the scenario revolves around his pivotal works: The Age of Brassthe Bust of Victor Hugo, The Gate of Hell (to be seen once more at the Musée d’Orsay), The Thinker. For Camille Claudel, the emphasis is on her passion, her luminous Little Chatelaine (visible at La Piscine de Roubaix) and on the work of memory undertaken by her great-niece, Reine-Marie Paris, since 1958. Without her, Camille Claudel would have remained in oblivion where her mother had thrown her by making her internal with this comment: “There at least, she cannot harm anyone. » C. Pa.
Crazy Love by Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Chloë Chovin, David Jankowski, Eric Duret (Fr., 2022, 115 min). Mr France.tvavailable until July 18.
In Ventimiglia, an “invisible wall” swallows up lives
“To live better, you have to live in hiding. » Charlotte Rouault’s podcast recounts the dehumanizing mechanisms of control and repression of people in a migration situation. “How far can we cut off those whom European migration policies make us perceive as ‘foreign bodies’ to our communities? », she asks. We are in Ventimiglia, Italy. Here, migrants come up once morest an invisible wall, following the reestablishment of internal border controls since 2015. Despite Schengen – almost thirty. This wall, Charlotte Rouault tried to materialize it in an immersive documentary broadcast by Le Labo, the radio creation workshop of the Swiss Radio-Television (RTS). Migrants arriving in Ventimiglia receive help only from mobilized citizens. When they are not at the mercy of smugglers, they risk falling or being beaten up if they are caught by soldiers. ” With a gesture », testifies a volunteer, without any explanation and in defiance of the law, those who would like to seek asylum – sometimes minors, injured or sick – find themselves turned back to Italy. Charlotte Rouault breaks the silence and darkness that bury these lives. And poses the political question of racism: What happens on this border would never be tolerated if it were white bodies. » M. E. M.
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