French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage and challenges gender norms to make her talents known to the world, and emerge as a leading writer in her country as well as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Visually delightful, deliciously funny and delectably bawdy, “Colette” earns Keira Knightley official status as queen of the period film. Her radiant performance as Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), the mercurial French novelist, actress and sexual adventurer, gives that passionate life and storied career a distinctly individual reading.
This film, which follows Colette through the halfway point of her life, almost begs for a sequel. It is well crafted in every detail — strong direction, alluring performances, sharp comic timing, chic costumes and a cunning balance of late-19th-century settings and thoroughly contemporary social ideas. Knightley is worth the price of admission on her own, a compelling actress seemingly possessed by the woman she portrays."
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