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 ...

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” 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 ...

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 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 ...