Colette (2013 film)

. Both locations are seductively lavish, not in terms of the money spent by the people who live there, but in the wealth of lived-in detail bathed in soft, golden light. A man named Willy visits from the city and presents her with a gift, a snow globe of the new Paris attraction, the Eiffel Tower. The Ebert Club is our hand-picked selection of content for Ebert fans. Colette herself, played by , is in increasingly stark contrast to both settings, too curious and independent-minded for the quiet life of the country, too honest and unconfined for the conventions of the city.

Colette movie review & film summary (2018)

She has affairs with women one of whom also has an affair with Willy. But the chemistry is palpable between Knightley and West, whether they are in love or estranged, and Knightley gives one of her best performances as a girl with spirit and talent who becomes a woman with ferocity and a voice. Advertisement Willy betrays Gaby as a wife: he explains constant infidelity is just how men are and she has to get used to it. And she fights to put her name on her work. And then it does not.

COLETTE (2018)

But soon they are married, and the country girl finds herself in the middle of the Paris arts community, letting those who might think of her as unsophisticated know that she is bright, brave, and eager to be a part of what is going on. She is a girl without a dowry, she reminds him. Willy pushes Gaby to write sequels, even locking her in a room until she produces more pages. The film struggles with the same challenge in all movies about writers: there is nothing less cinematic than someone sitting at a desk with brow furrowed, putting words together, even when it is with an elegant fountain pen in a gorgeous belle époque setting. The vast majority of sequels are unnecessary, but Zombieland: Double Tap feels particularly so, especially coming out a decade after the original. Club members also get access to our members-only section on RogerEbert. It becomes a sensation because of its unprecedented honesty in presenting the perspective of a young woman.

Colette (2013 film)

You will receive a weekly newsletter full of movie-related tidbits, articles, trailers, even the occasional streamable movie. And he betrays her as a writer: she begins to believe her own name should be on the Claudine books, which are not just her perspective, but also her own experiences. . . . .