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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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She [Emmanuelle Devos] gives a tremendous performance, somehow managing to turn an emotion as ugly as self-loathing into something beautiful to behold. Dec 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. Oct 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. Oct 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. Oct 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. Aug 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
It's a perfect approach to Leduc, whose work is so grounded in the messy, fleshy realities of life, it scandalized critics with its frank treatment of taboo subjects such as lesbianism and incest. Jul 18, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It's a perfect approach to Leduc, whose work is so grounded in the messy, fleshy realities of life, it scandalized critics with its frank treatment of taboo subjects such as lesbianism and incest.
Tirdad Derakhshani
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. Apr 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. Mar 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. Mar 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... Oct 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...
Sean Axmaker
Emmanuelle Devos stars as volatile feminist writer Violette Leduc in Martin Provost's epic biopic, with Sandrine Kiberlain as her unrequited literary love, Simone de Beauvoir. Oct 13, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Emmanuelle Devos stars as volatile feminist writer Violette Leduc in Martin Provost's epic biopic, with Sandrine Kiberlain as her unrequited literary love, Simone de Beauvoir.
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