Though its subject was real, the French biopic “Violette” feels more like a thought experiment: What if a brilliant and daring female artist was just as self-indulgent and self-pitying as the vilest ...

Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kiberlain) counsels Violette Leduc (Emmanuelle Devos) in "Violette." (Adopt Films ) "Well-behaved women rarely make history," goes the bumper sticker, and the makers of ...

Emmanuelle Devos triumphs in this sharply observed yet sympathetic biopic of a trailblazing feminist author. The trailblazing feminist writer Violette Leduc gets a biopic fully worthy of her complex ...

The people behind me at the screening of Violette were a bit confused at the end of the movie, even though they were probably only a few years older than me, or about the average age of today’s ...

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 ...

Americans put a lot of stock in being likable. Pollsters take surveys of the president's likability. Test screenings check whether we like the characters in movies. And when a literary novelist like ...

Drama. Starring Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain. Directed by Martin Provost. In French with English subtitles. (Not rated. 132 minutes.) In "Violette," Emmanuelle Devos plays a talented artist ...

“Violette” is the kind of film in which you can almost smell the characters’ perfume; a literate, leisurely and lovely telling of one woman’s attempt to find what Virginia Woolf famously called “a ...

IF YOU have never heard of writer Violette Leduc, the beautifully crafted, insightful Violette will leave you wanting to read her books. Director: Martin Provost Starring: Sandrine Kiberlain, Jacques ...

Violette Leduc (7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French writer. She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, on 7 April 1907. She was the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe Leduc, and ...

The 60-year-old lady protagonist of Violette Leduc's classic novella, La Femme au Petit Renard, first published in 1965 by Gallimard, is fading away to nothing, physically and spiritually. Intense ...

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 ...