Paris, 1964. Le célèbre peintre et sculpteur suisse Alberto Giacometti invite son ami James Lord, un écrivain américain, dans son atelier afin de peindre son portrait. Pourtant, Giacometti se montre perfectionniste et le recommence à zéro sans arrêt pour atteindre une certaine perfection artistique. Impatient mais intrigué, son modèle James Lord doit retarder son retour aux États-Unis et accepte de se laisser prendre au jeu. Alors que, au fil des jours, Giacometti tente de créer son ultime chef d’œuvre, Lord fait connaissance avec son entourage : son frère Diego, sa femme Annette, sa maîtresse Caroline,...
The film recounts the troubled life of French sculptor Camille Claudel and her long relationship with legendary sculptor Auguste Rodin. Beginning in the 1880s with a young Claudel's first meeting with Rodin, the film traces the development of their intense romantic bond. The growth of this relationship coincides with the rise of Claudel's career, helping her overcome prejudices against female artists. However, their romance soon sours, due to the increasing pressures of Rodin's fame and his love for another woman. These difficulties combine with her increasing doubts about the value of her work drive Claudel into an emotional tumult that threatens to become insanity.
At the end of her career the sculptor Camille Claudel seems to suffer with mental issues. She destroys more than once her own statues and utters repeatedly that her former lover Auguste Rodin intended to make her life miserable. Consequently her younger brother Paul sends her to an asylum in the outskirts of Avignon. Claudel tries to convince her doctor she is perfectly sane, while living among patients who obviously are not. She is desperate to see her brother again, hoping he might eventually support her plea.
Sculpteur de renom âgé d'une cinquantaine d'années, François Bressolles s'éprend de la jeune Catherine Collet qu'il convainc, sans difficulté, de poser pour lui. Tous deux échafaudent rapidement des projets de vie commune, mais François devient du jour au lendemain cassant et distant vis-à-vis de la jeune femme - avant de s'afficher ostensiblement dans des lieux publics avec une artiste de cabaret (Mona Goya). Catherine finit par comprendre la vérité : sachant qu'il perd la vue jour après jour, François a tout fait pour l'éloigner d'elle. Catherine revient pourtant, au moment précis où son compagnon devient tout à fait aveugle. Désormais, elle verra pour eux deux.
In the summer of 1943 in the occupied France, a famous sculptor, tired of life, finds a desire to return to work with the arrival of a young Spanish woman who has escaped from a refugee camp and becomes his muse.
A Greek military hero named Darios (Rory Calhoun) visits his uncle Lissipu (George Rigaud) on the island of Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossal statue of the god Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance with Phoenicia, which would be hostile to Greece.
The film begins in Paris around the year 1902 when Claude Roc and his widowed mother are visited by Ann Brown, daughter of an old friend. Ann invites Claude to spend the summer on the coast of Wales with her widowed mother and sister Muriel. While she enjoys Claude's company, her hope is that he may be a husband for her introverted sister. In the event, Claude and Muriel do start to fall in love and Mrs Brown, with the agreement of Madame Roc, says they must live apart for a year.
The film takes place in 1920, in the Midlands mining town of Beldover. Two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, discuss marriage on their way to the wedding of Laura Crich, daughter of the town's wealthy mine owner, Thomas Crich, to Tibby Lupton, a naval officer. At the village's church, each sister is fascinated by a particular member of the wedding party – Gudrun by Laura's brother, Gerald, and Ursula by Gerald's best friend, Rupert Birkin. Ursula is a school teacher and Rupert is a school inspector; she remembers his visit to her classroom, interrupting her botany lesson to discourse on the sexual nature of the catkin.
À Paris en 1880, le sculpteur Auguste Rodin, 40 ans, reçoit la reconnaissance de l'État français qui lui commande l’œuvre La Porte de l'Enfer, composée entre autres du Baiser et du Penseur. Alors qu'il vit avec son épouse Rose, il tombe amoureux de son élève la plus douée, Camille Claudel, qui devient son assistante puis sa maîtresse. Une passion folle et intense qui dura 10 ans et se termina par une rupture douloureuse. Rodin réalise après s'être séparé d'elle un portrait de Balzac, qui fait scandale et marque l'histoire de l'art.