This is a great movie, which surely comes from the directors enthusiasm for colette and his in depth knowledge of her life. In my opinion keira knightley delivered her most brilliant performance yet and all the topics are still relevant today!
Everyone should read the biography of Natalie Barney! She was good friends with Collette and all her circle, rich, a writer and outspoken lesbian, really outspoken! Her money and beauty cut a wide swath through Paris for fifty years!!! Natalie will make you realize that there were ALWAYS modern things going on in the most repressed of times. Very, very inspiring.
I wish they let Keira talk a little more, she always does fantastic in interviews, one of the best. If I were the interviewer, not to slight the others, i would definitely have Kiera talk more about her "own role" in the movie, instead of the director explaining what the role was and the movie was about. Anyway, I might just be biased.
Well, Keyra is just a stunning beauty (plus a brilliant actress of course) - whether she's talking like a waterfall (which she does quite often) or just sitting on the sofa and listening to other people's sophisticated interpretations of her latest movie/role. I think I would like to watch her even if she played an emancipated toilet-attendant. I think they call this phenomenon "box-office-gold".
The film is interesting, Keira Knightley's work in it is extremely good. The story is manipulated, and of course, some of it must be fabricated to support the desired theme, which is clearly shaped to the popular interpretation of sexual politics, and the latest manifestation of feminism and political correctness, to which end the story is beautifully written. The closing credits are preceded by a thumbnail biography, which neglects to mention the fact that she entered into two further marriages, and that she wrote articles for at least a couple for pro-Nazi publications, and that her novel Julie de Carneilhan contained antisemitic sentiments. She was also the author of the story Gigi, which became the award-winning film of the same name. None of this detracts from the fact that she was a truly gifted and exceptional woman, it simply serves to balance her as a remarkable human being who lived her life in a time and through a set of social orders before our own. The notion that stories from any period of history are surprisingly relevant or applicable to the present day, is based upon a false premise. A few hours reading of Euripides or of Shakespeare, to mention only two dramatists, will show that people have not changed dramatically for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, only fashions and social arrangements have changed. Childhood continues to lead to adolescence, thence to young adulthood and middle age, until old age gets its nasty teeth into us if we happen, like Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, to be lucky enough to survive all the rest.
"Women claiming their own voice", mmmh. Women have always had their own voice. Perhaps better spoken would be: Women claiming OWNERSHIP of their own voice* (At that time*) Her crafts were recieved, only others gained the credit. Her example applies now to everyone. Just saying ;)
Society and this movie are so LGBTQ-inclusive, so unaware of its own inconsistencies…Colette seduced her 16 year old stepson.Personally I don't think it's such a big deal, but would a man be celebrated in a movie in the same way if he'd seduced his 16 year old step daughter?
This is a great movie, which surely comes from the directors enthusiasm for colette and his in depth knowledge of her life. In my opinion keira knightley delivered her most brilliant performance yet and all the topics are still relevant today!
I am a woman abstract painter in a small country town., this movie is inspiring for the women on the EDGE of creating art in all forms.
Barf
Everyone should read the biography of Natalie Barney! She was good friends with Collette and all her circle, rich, a writer and outspoken lesbian, really outspoken! Her money and beauty cut a wide swath through Paris for fifty years!!! Natalie will make you realize that there were ALWAYS modern things going on in the most repressed of times. Very, very inspiring.
I wish they let Keira talk a little more, she always does fantastic in interviews, one of the best. If I were the interviewer, not to slight the others, i would definitely have Kiera talk more about her "own role" in the movie, instead of the director explaining what the role was and the movie was about. Anyway, I might just be biased.
She talks in this interview? Been jumping all over to listen to her not the idiot that doesn't play the character
seems like Keira didn't get to "discuss" too much of anything in this video...smh
Well, Keyra is just a stunning beauty (plus a brilliant actress of course) - whether she's talking like a waterfall (which she does quite often) or just sitting on the sofa and listening to other people's sophisticated interpretations of her latest movie/role. I think I would like to watch her even if she played an emancipated toilet-attendant. I think they call this phenomenon "box-office-gold".
The film is interesting, Keira Knightley's work in it is extremely good.
The story is manipulated, and of course, some of it must be fabricated to support the desired theme, which is clearly shaped to the popular interpretation of sexual politics, and the latest manifestation of feminism and political correctness, to which end the story is beautifully written.
The closing credits are preceded by a thumbnail biography, which neglects to mention the fact that she entered into two further marriages, and that she wrote articles for at least a couple for pro-Nazi publications, and that her novel Julie de Carneilhan contained antisemitic sentiments. She was also the author of the story Gigi, which became the award-winning film of the same name. None of this detracts from the fact that she was a truly gifted and exceptional woman, it simply serves to balance her as a remarkable human being who lived her life in a time and through a set of social orders before our own.
The notion that stories from any period of history are surprisingly relevant or applicable to the present day, is based upon a false premise. A few hours reading of Euripides or of Shakespeare, to mention only two dramatists, will show that people have not changed dramatically for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, only fashions and social arrangements have changed. Childhood continues to lead to adolescence, thence to young adulthood and middle age, until old age gets its nasty teeth into us if we happen, like Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, to be lucky enough to survive all the rest.
"Woman living as a man" you mean a trans man... you wrote the movie where he clearly prefers he him his pronouns you can use those bruh?
Two years later, are you still offended over a damn film?
So I've jumped through this video 7 times and it's only been the middle aged balding guy speaking on behalf kiera
Then again, man talking all the time, Keira just listening... Hmmm, I agree with you, Kristie M.
"Women claiming their own voice", mmmh. Women have always had their own voice. Perhaps better spoken would be: Women claiming OWNERSHIP of their own voice* (At that time*) Her crafts were recieved, only others gained the credit. Her example applies now to everyone. Just saying ;)
Society and this movie are so LGBTQ-inclusive, so unaware of its own inconsistencies…Colette seduced her 16 year old stepson.Personally I don't think it's such a big deal, but would a man be celebrated in a movie in the same way if he'd seduced his 16 year old step daughter?