Colette
2018 · Movie · R · 112 min · ★ 6.9 · 81% critics
After marrying a successful Parisian writer, a rural French newcomer is swept into the city’s intellectual and artistic world. He convinces her to write under his name, leading to a breakout semi-autobiographical bestseller and turning their lives into a Paris sensation through continued adventures and more stories.
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Details
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-09-21
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Critic score
- 81/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (951 votes)
- Box office
- $14,200,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy Colette if you want a lush, personality-driven period romance with strong performances and a writer-focused story; Not for you if you dislike dramatized relationships, overly provocative scenes, or subtitled-by-default confusion—especially if you prefer the more straightforward historical energy of Suffragette or Farewell, My Queen.
Pros: riveting performances; beautiful period Paris; engaging pace | Cons: uneven tone focus; distracting content choices; some pacing drag
Themes
- infidelity
- france
- paris, france
- nobel prize
- biography
- based on true story
- author
- lgbt
- music hall
- trans man
- 19th century
- abusive marriage
- +6 more
Cast & crew
Keira Knightley
as Colette
Dominic West
as Willy
Denise Gough
as Missy
Fiona Shaw
as Sido
Robert Pugh
as Jules
Eleanor Tomlinson
as Georgie Raoul-Duval
Ray Panthaki
as Veber
Dickie Beau
as Wague
Jake Graf
as Gaston De Caillavet
Polina Litvak
as Lily
Directed by Wash Westmoreland