Colette

"Keira Knightley Is on Top Form In Exhilarating Literary Biopic

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The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Wash Westmoreland
  • United Kingdom 2018
  • 111 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Keira Knightley stars in this historical drama about the French novelist, whose provocative debut - falsely credited to her husband - becomes the toast of Paris, triggering a battle for identity, equality, and self-determination at the dawn of the feminist age.

Colette is arguably one of France’s most important and groundbreaking writers, and her writing bucked the societal constraints placed on women. The film tells the story of this iridescent artist’s creative awakening in turn-of-the-century Paris - a place as dynamic and modern as she was.


  • Director Wash Westmoreland
  • Production Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters
  • Script Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
  • Cinematography Giles Nuttgens
  • Editing Lucia Zucchetti
  • Music Thomas Adès
  • Festivals Sundance, Toronto
  • Actors Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Eleanor Tomlinson, Robert Pugh
  • Source Lev Films and Cinemas Ltd.