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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the new French film Violette, Emmanuelle Devos plays a fictionalized character based on Violette Leduc, the trailblazing French novelist. Americans put a lot of stock in being likable. Pollsters ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...