Colette
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Writer: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Cast: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Denise Gough, Robert Pugh, Sloan Thompson, Arabella Weir, Máté Haumann, Ray Panthaki
Seen on: 7.1.2019
Content Note: abuse
Plot:
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) grows up in rural France where she meets Willy (Dominic West), author and entrepreneur. They start an affair and eventually, Willy marries Gabrielle and brings her to Paris. Once there, she realizes that Willy has ghostwriters working for him and she quickly becomes roped into his business, too, to try to stave off the continuous money problems. But when she tries her own hand at writing, she finds herself completely under his thumb – at least for a while.
Colette was a fascinating woman so any biopic about her is bound to be interesting, particularly with as engaging a lead as Knightley. There were a couple of weaknesses in the script and a cis person cast as a trans character, but overall, it’s absolutely a solid film.
