The Hand that Holds the Pen Writes History

Colette is a really enjoyable watch. Neither of us are big Keira Knightley fans but decided to take a leap of faith.....and we're glad we did. Knightley plays the naive country bumpkin who marries the worldly egotistical Willy and portrays their married life together in the bohemian City of Paris. According to this film they had a relationship full of contradiction and power struggles, but that seemed to have its foundations in genuine love for each other.

It centres around literary arts in the 1800s and, whilst Willy is already established in his world, Gabrielle is thrust into the middle of it and eventually encouraged to write her own memoirs. The outstanding presence onscreen was Dominic West who presented a character driven by lust and a desire for wealth with few scruples, however, despite this he wasn't a difficult character to like, and his charm won us over.

We will give each film we see a score out of 10 for overall enjoyment.

Colette = 7 If you're going to show people drinking tea...put some tea in the cups. We feel it would have made more sense if, given that the language was English, the handwritten letters would have been the same.

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