Fresh
She [Emmanuelle Devos] gives a tremendous performance, somehow managing to turn an emotion as ugly as self-loathing into something beautiful to behold.
Missy Schwartz, Entertainment Weekly
Overview
Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
Director and cast
- Martin Provost Director
- Emmanuelle Devos as Violette Leduc
- Sandrine Kiberlain as Simone de Beauvoir
- Olivier Gourmet as Jacques Guérin
- Frans Boyer as Le jeune paysan
- Catherine Hiegel as Berthe Leduc
- Jacques Bonnaffé as Jean Genet
- Olivier Py as Maurice Sachs
- Nathalie Richard as Hermine
- Stanley Weber as Le jeune maçon
- Jean Toscane as Monsieur Motté
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
"Violette" demonstrates how suffering produces great art, and that the artist isn't the only one who suffers for it.
Peter Keough, Boston Globe
Fresh
It's a perfect approach to Leduc, whose work is so grounded in the messy, fleshy realities of life, it scandalized critics with its frank treatment of taboo subjects such as lesbianism and incest.
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
A literate, leisurely and lovely telling of one woman's attempt to find what Virginia Woolf famously called "a room of one's own."
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
So compelling, even thrilling, in its frank depictions of female sexual voracity, professional egotism and twisted variants on the Electra complex that it's easy to overlook [its] shaggy, uneven plotting.
Inkoo Kang, Los Angeles Times
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