Camille is the greatest role Garbo got after Mata Hari , but it is a masterpiece because she has GEORGE CUKOR as director ,and THALBERG as producer ,i think artists who worked under the early Hollywood moguls were very fortunate ,they made some mistakes but sometimes they strike gold and its pure magic and so is Camille . its Garbo at her most enigmatic ,romantic ,tragic yet assertive best .she hlits like butterfly and she burns like a candle .she is soft as silk and hard as steel and all this she shows in an incredibly expressive performance .she leads everyone by hand and hook .from Parisian high society to the rural folk she is a delight to behold in her natural behaviour , Cukor gives her opportunity to indulge every instinct and she exhilarates init .ROBERT TAYLOR is beautiful and dressed like a peacock and he is at his best too ,but he knows this is Garbo all the way and he indulges her thoroughly .they talk like real lovers do, she plays a very strong woman and her excesses and extravaganza , her snobbery and attitude at start are the portraying her as a selfish ,thoughtless brazen spoilt aristocrat but then she melts and she convinces you its because she always had a heart but was looking for a soul to share it with ,the philosophy is so surreal and sacred that you find it irresistible ,you are convinced they are in love they quarrel ,they insult and then they show the most tender emotions and acts in trivia ,the director uses both the script and dialogues to their maximum affect .he enhances every sequence till it becomes enchanting or an emotional ecstasy .Camille is a very superficial creature to start but you know her as a deeply caring ,immensely intelligent yet a a woman with a soul ,there is nothing here that you feel is not possible or is out of place , Camille follows her heart and mind and so does this great movie ,an incredible achievement in movie art , al the sequences in the opera house and in her apartment are so ingeniously shot in dramatic realism , they make you forget its a movie , you are living in Camille world and it is so obsessive you almost fall in love with a character on screen .you feel her pain and the enormous amorous anxiety that she suffers in the final moments , she is shown as a woman struck by ill health and love could redeem her yet she finds her absolution but her mind is so strong she lets it all go for the love that possesses her but which she knows will destroy her lover too , it is something divine and noble and the great storytelling convinces you of that abjure emotion which can only be experienced in true love ,where nothing matters but that emotion itself and who it is felt for , no one can say movies are a dream factory when such realist masterpieces as Camille exist as movies ,kudos