Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Based on the life and work of Violette Leduc (1907-1972), a French writer known for such raw, autobiographical works as the 1964 memoir “La Bâtarde (The ...
Martin Provost's second biopic of a French female artist stars Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain as Violette Leduc and her mentor/object of desire Simone de Beauvoir. By Boyd van Hoeij The film ...
In “Violette,” Emmanuelle Devos plays one of those impossible women who can’t give anyone, most of all herself, a break. For Violette Leduc, a black marketeer turned celebrated writer, life is a ...
Violette is a film consumed by hunger, as was its heroine, the French writer Violette Leduc: hunger for love, for companionship, for artistic validation. Portrayed with flickering levels of ferocity ...
No frothy French confection, "Violette," director Martin Provost's semi-bio of the feminist memoirist Violette Leduc, is -- much like Leduc's taboo-toppling writing -- frank, harsh, emotionally ...
The trailblazing feminist writer Violette Leduc gets a biopic fully worthy of her complex life and work with “Violette.” In this thematic bookend to his 2008 “Seraphine,” director Martin Provost once ...
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