Rodin

Rodin (2017) is a French biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jacques Doillon. The film competed at Cannes that year. Vincent Lindon plays Auguste Rodin during the years following his first major public recognition — beginning with the moment a twenty-year-old Camille Claudel walked into his studio and turned out to be more capable than anyone else there.

Doillon keeps the camera close: most of the film plays out in the studio, in conversation, in the physical space of two people working side by side. Izïa Higelin plays Camille not as a victim in waiting but as a sculptor who clearly understood the deal she was making. Séverine Caneele appears as Rose Beuret — the companion Rodin kept close his entire adult life and never married.

Lindon's Rodin is a man whose greatness in stone comes with a corresponding incapacity for ordinary decency toward the people around him. Watch Rodin online on iFILM.