“Colette” – Nicely Knightley played [MOVIE REVIEW]

Dominic West stars as Willy and Keira Knightley as Colette in COLETTE, a Bleecker Street release. “Colette,” a portrayal of the soon-to-be-famous Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, is an almost-ran on too many levels. Directed by Wash Westmoreland (“Still Alice” and Quinceañera”) and written by a team including Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer, and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, all from a story by Glatzer. And this may be the problem, for with that many writers, it is easy to imagine that each may have had his or her own concept of what the film should have been, with no point of view dominating. More’s the pity as Colette is one of the more interesting literary figures of the 20th Century. Most of us know her only as the author of Gigi, but she was so much more and her entrée into the Belle Epoque literary society of Paris was notable on many levels. Starting early in Gabrielle’s life, on the verge of womanhood and engrossed in a head-scratching affair with the much older Henri Gauthier-Villars, widely known by his pen name Willy and an important literary figure. He married her, taking her to Paris, away from her idyllic village and her much loved parents. Willy, an infamous roué, introduced her to…

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