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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A successful film bio meets the considerable challenge of balancing substance with style, while avoiding being salaciously foolish or boringly reverent. “Violette” could serve as a primer on how to do ...

Sotheby’s, which sold the 297 letters, says they reveal ‘a complex and ambiguous relationship where unrequited passion and mistrust mingle’ Almost 300 letters, mostly unpublished, from the influential ...

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 ...

'At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers ... I wanted to feel ...

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 ...