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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the real French writer and performer at the centre of a new film starring Keira Knightley, was a turn-of-the-century woman ahead of her time. She started a riot by sharing a kiss with her female lover on the stage of the Moulin Rouge in , and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette — or simply Colette, as she would become known — is a boundary-smashing figure fit for the 21st-century generation. A weights-lifter who appeared on the cover of athletic magazines, Colette scandalised society by having relationships with both women and men in her forties she even became romantically involved with her year-old stepson , and upon her death in she became the first French female writer to be given a state funeral. That's what drew myself and my late husband, Richard Glatser, to the project. Her new husband, Willy played by Dominic West in Colette , was 15 years her senior. Willy was a literary brand of his own creation: he kept a stable of ghost-writers and put his name to countless works — from theatre reviews to novels — and was known in Parisian society for both his hearty appetite for pleasure and his incessant self-promotion.

Skip navigation! Story from Movies. It would be years before anyone knew Colette was responsible for this famous opening line. But the Claudine books were entirely Colette's. In these lines, Claudine, perhaps like Colette herself, indicates a confidence that her life would carry her away from the town she was born, far from her known world, towards a fate decidedly more interesting. Colette depicts a woman coming into her voice and into her body. In Colette , the author — played with sharp mischievousness by p eriod piece queen Keira Knightley — gradually wades into her sexuality in free-thinking and sexually free turn-of-the-century Paris.

By Lewis Corner. Here, the filmmaker talks about his fascination with Colette, casting trans actors in cisgender roles for the project, and how Hollywood is starting to change for the better. I mean, Willy is completely burning up all of the oxygen in the room because he is the big important noise. Aside from being a great actress, what was it about Keira Knightley that made you want to cast her in this role? Keira has this lightning-fast intellect.

I liked it. It looks great, and has something to say about sex, sexuality and taking your destiny into your own hands. French writer Colette is perhaps not as well-known internationally as her most famous character, Gigi. Based on her novella, it become a hit Broadway play in for which Colette personally selected an unknown Belgian actress called Audrey Hepburn for the lead and then an Oscar-winning musical giant in under the direction of Vincente Minnelli, with Leslie Caron in the lead. Ah yes, I hear you say, I remember it well….