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Led by an outstanding performance from Emmanuelle Devos, Violette is a rewarding, bracingly honest look at social mores and the literary life.
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This well-acted, wonderfully photographed biopic explores the troubled life of French feminist author Violette Leduc and her complicated ties to Simone de Beauvoir... June 30, 2020 | Full Review…
This well-acted, wonderfully photographed biopic explores the troubled life of French feminist author Violette Leduc and her complicated ties to Simone de Beauvoir...
David Lewis
She [Emmanuelle Devos] gives a tremendous performance, somehow managing to turn an emotion as ugly as self-loathing into something beautiful to behold. December 3, 2014 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
She [Emmanuelle Devos] gives a tremendous performance, somehow managing to turn an emotion as ugly as self-loathing into something beautiful to behold.
Missy Schwartz
[Leduc] remains a small and rather irritating sideshow to the more powerful St Germain crowd, and the focus on her life is surprisingly dull. October 3, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
[Leduc] remains a small and rather irritating sideshow to the more powerful St Germain crowd, and the focus on her life is surprisingly dull.
Kate Muir
For all the chaos and pain, it is weirdly romantic: a glorious tale of wish-fulfilment, confirming that writers really can attain self-validation through the pen. October 2, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
For all the chaos and pain, it is weirdly romantic: a glorious tale of wish-fulfilment, confirming that writers really can attain self-validation through the pen.
Peter Bradshaw
A deeply satisfying combination of fascinating subject, ace performers and refined directorial sensibility. October 2, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A deeply satisfying combination of fascinating subject, ace performers and refined directorial sensibility.
Trevor Johnston
"Violette" demonstrates how suffering produces great art, and that the artist isn't the only one who suffers for it. August 21, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
"Violette" demonstrates how suffering produces great art, and that the artist isn't the only one who suffers for it.
Peter Keough
As a portrait of the relationship between these two women, the film is exceptionally engaging and engrossing. Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlaine deliver rewarding performances, strikingly at odds as they are genuinely complimentary. August 30, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
As a portrait of the relationship between these two women, the film is exceptionally engaging and engrossing. Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlaine deliver rewarding performances, strikingly at odds as they are genuinely complimentary.
Nicholas Bell
It's refreshing to see a film that centres on a daring female creative who is just as self-indulgent and self-pitying as any male artist. April 3, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's refreshing to see a film that centres on a daring female creative who is just as self-indulgent and self-pitying as any male artist.
D.W. Mault
[Violette] is a nice change in that it focuses on not one, but two women writers who work hard over a period of years to become successful artists (both critically and financially) in their own right. March 12, 2019 | Full Review…
[Violette] is a nice change in that it focuses on not one, but two women writers who work hard over a period of years to become successful artists (both critically and financially) in their own right.
Ren Jender
The film was directed and co-written by Martin Provost, who's clearly drawn to women once called "difficult." He uses their exploits to explore big themes - be it the glory and danger of self-expression, or the sexual politics of culture. May 16, 2018 | Full Review…
The film was directed and co-written by Martin Provost, who's clearly drawn to women once called "difficult." He uses their exploits to explore big themes - be it the glory and danger of self-expression, or the sexual politics of culture.
John Powers
The relationship between two historic literary figures has rarely been so fiercely drawn as it is in Martin Provost's French drama. March 6, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
The relationship between two historic literary figures has rarely been so fiercely drawn as it is in Martin Provost's French drama.
Craig Mathieson
... this handsome biographical drama takes on a revered but troubled French artist who came out of poverty and neglect and rose to fame. Violette, however, is more about her mother issues, her anxieties over money... October 28, 2016 | Full Review…
... this handsome biographical drama takes on a revered but troubled French artist who came out of poverty and neglect and rose to fame. Violette, however, is more about her mother issues, her anxieties over money...
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