Colette's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
The life of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette makes for fascinating drama in a nuanced and inspiring film with a luminous central performance
Variety
Less stuffy literary biopic than ever-relevant female-empowerment saga, ?Colette? ranks as one of the great roles for which Keira Knightley will be remembered
Rolling Stone
'Colette' is a movie that dazzles the senses. But the source of its power to reach the mind and heart is something more intimate: the indelible image of Colette fighting past an oppressive patriarchy and seizing the freedom to be heard as a woman.
Indiewire
While ?Colette? only covers a particular chapter of its subject?s incredible life, Westmoreland?s script ? co-written by his late husband and creative partner Richard Glatzer (?Still Alice?) ? wisely expedites Colette?s liberation, setting her loose at the start of the first act rather than at the end of the second
The Hollywood Reporter
An enjoyable account of how France's most famous female author came out of the closet in more ways than one, Wash Westmoreland's Colette casts Keira Knightley as the country girl whose literary gifts (with the help of salacious plotlines) outshone those of all the male writers around her, including her celebrated husband