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Camille Claudel, 1915 Director/Writer: Bruno Dumont Producer(s): Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, Muriel Merlin U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Juliette Binoche and Jean-Luc Vincent We originally had Bruno Dumont's 7th...

Unlike Gérard Depardieu, I can only picture a select few A-level French actresses who would be up to the challenge of working with someone such as Bruno Dumont and his emotionally devastating texts. It'll be a first for him (he usually works with non-pros) and in an odd karma alignment, Binoche is playing the same role that Isabelle Adjani played in 1988's titular Camille Claudel. Adjani's co-star was Depardieu. Binoche will kick butt.

I think at a point in his filmography [five pictures in with The Life of Jesus (1997), Humanity (1999), Twentynine Palms (2003), Flanders (2006), Hadewijch (2009)] any film studies prof could dedicate a semester to the deconstructing the works of filmmaker/philosopher Bruno Dumont. His sixth pic appears to be the polar opposite of his 2009 picture about one's submission to religion and we should expect to see common Dumont traits of violence and seclusion in natural surroundings appear to impregnate his discourse once again.

After a moment of reprieve in 2009's Hadewijch, it looks as if Bruno Dumont will was again explore the nastier side of the human species with a film that will be featured in the backdrop of the sand dunes of Pas de Calais, France -- which appears to be the northern region above Normandy.

There was plenty of speculation about the status of Hadewijch and why it may not have been included at Cannes and now even more talk about why its not competing in Venice. For those who love philosophy lessons embedded in their cinema - this may be one more exercise in just that.