Colette

A wild weather weekend was promised, but hadn't really come to our city.  The day was overcast and humid, but altogether not too bad.  I met up with a friend for lunch, a quick stroll and then we went to the cinema.  I didn't really know too much about this movie, although writing this now I do remember seeing the preview a couple of months ago.

Based on the memoirs of French writer Colette, this biopic has Kiera Knightly as the young French woman who after living an idyllic life in the most beautiful rural farmhouse goes to Paris with her older husband.  She writes a series of books based on her life, and these are published under his name bring the couple some money and notoriety.  When she wants her independence however, she finds that he has stifled her good name and sold the rights to her novels. 

Although interesting, as with most of the movies of this type, there is only so much that can be fitted into the 2 hours or so of screen time, and sometimes the details seem a bit rushed or a bit clipped.  I did end up wanting to have a holiday in the French countryside with a French bulldog.  Oh and the outfits were rather beautiful.  I could never be as tiny as Kiera or pull them off so well, but the Belle Epoch fashions were just devine.  4/5