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COLETTE

By Wash WESTMORELAND

LIONSGATE UK LTD - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, UNITED KINGDOM

Drama - Completed 2018

Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama, Historical, Biography
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, HUNGARY, USA
- Duration
- 111 mn
- Director(s)
- Wash WESTMORELAND
- Writer(s)
- Richard GLATZER, Rebecca LENKIEWICZ, Wash WESTMORELAND
- Cast
- Keira KNIGHTLEY, Dominic WEST, Eleanor TOMLINSON, Fiona SHAW, Ray PANTHAKI, Aiysha HART, Denise GOUGH
- Producer(s)
- Elizabeth KARLSEN (NUMBER 9 FILMS LIMITED), Stephen WOOLLEY (NUMBER 9 FILMS LIMITED), Christine VACHON (KILLER FILMS), Pamela KOFFLER (KILLER FILMS), Michel LITVAK (BOLD FILMS), Gary Michael WALTERS (BOLD FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Keira Knightly leads this timely film about the struggles of the avant-garde French
  novelist, COLETTE; a story that resonates in the era of female empowerment.
  Colette’s marriage to Henry ‘Willy’ Gauthier-Villars (West) thrusts her from a simple country life into the raucous creative demi-monde of Paris. Swiftly developing her talent as a writer, Colette’s first novels are published under Willy’s name. An author in his own right, Willy mentors Colette and later betrays her as her stories gain them fame and notoriety.
  
  Whip-smart, precocious and unapologetic, not only is Colette a talented author, actor and journalist, but also a trailblazer, fighting for the survival of her voice and identity in a male-dominated world, who shines a light for future generations of female artists.