Becoming Colette (1992)

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Danny Huston's Becoming Colette purports to be an account of the early formative years of French author Gabrielle Colette (Mathilda May) and her evolution from naive country bumpkin to a Parisian socialite in a George Sand suit. The film turns up the heat with Colette as a teen with a crush on her father. This desire is then transferred to the suave and cosmopolitan Villars (Klaus Maria Brandauer) -- a fatherly twenty-five years her senior. The two start their hanky-panky on her father's country estate, resulting in a whirlwind courtship and marriage. Their honeymoon night is a succession of passionate unbuttonings. Colette writes in detail about it the next day in her diary. Villars then takes Colette to the Moulin Rouge to meet his mistress, the bisexual Polaire (Virginia Madsen). Polaire and Colette hit it off and soon are taking it off in a lesbian embrace. Meanwhile, Villars has taken to publishing Colette's diaries and is making money hand over fist. But finally Colette catches on after realizing that while she is toiling away at home cranking out Claudine books, Villars is busy taking her earnings and spending the cash on a succession of frilly mistresses. Making her stand in pants, she decides to abandon Villars and go out on her own.
  • Rating:
    R
  • Genre:
    Drama
  • Directed By:
    Danny Huston
  • Written By:
    Burt Weinshanker
  • In Theaters:
     wide
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  • Studio:
    Academy Entertainment

Cast

Mathilda May
as Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Klaus Maria Brandauer
as Henri Gauthier-Villars
Virginia Madsen
as Polaire Sorel
Paul Rhys
as Chapo
John Van Dreelen
as Albert
Jean-Pierre Aumont
as Captain
Lucienne Hamon
as Sido
Georg Tryphon
as Creditor
Jockel Tschiersch
Frank Demules
Vincent Nadal
Maya Thebeault
Cécile Bois
Eva Probst
Patrick Fontana
Jean-Max Brua
Delphine Rich
Bertrand Treuil
Pierre Bayle
Valerie Abril
Peer Morkeborg
Valerie Ancel
Yvan Blanloeil
Cecile Aubague
Anne-Marie Rastel
Tracy Mueller
Kira Lingenberg
Costanze Moericke
Miriam Dreschler
Ines Goeritz
Miriam Wolff
Radestina Parvanova
Carola Schweiger
Anna Blank
Wendy Kamp
Nicola Futterer
Nicole Xavier-Zimmerman
Libby Farr
Sebastian Laas
Peter Mann
Wolfgang Fechner
Mladen Dean
Rainer Homann
Ared Hubert
Andrej Diamantstein
Karl Dirk Schmidt
Connie Diem
Ralf Raeuker
Ulrike Sturzbecher
Alfred Hartung
Imad Tabsch
Thorsten Hiedel
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