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Colette (15)
Directed by Wash Westmoreland
WITH Glenn Close’s empowering Golden Globe winner’s speech calling women to follow their dreams still ringing in my ears, comes this fascinating biopic about France’s most celebrated female author.
As I was watching this enthralling costume drama I could not help but draw parallels between Close’s character in The Wife and the real-life Sidonie-Gabrielle — the “Colette” best-known for her novella Gigi — who was completely ahead of her time.
The film shows how Colette (Keira Knightley) at barely 20 married Willy (Dominic West), a renowned bachelor 14 years older than her in 1893.
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