Project Detail

Colette

Synopsis

Keira Knightley leads this timely film about the struggles of the avant-garde French novelist, Colette; a story that resonates in the era of female empowerment.
Colette’s marriage to Henry ‘Willy’ Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West) thrusts her from a simple country life into the raucous creative demi-monde of Paris. Swiftly developing her talent as a writer, Colette’s first novels are published under Willy’s name. An author in his own right, Willy mentors Colette and later betrays her as her stories gain them fame and notoriety.
Whip-smart, precocious and unapologetic, not only is Colette a talented author, actor and journalist, but also a trailblazer, fighting for the survival of her voice and identity in a male-dominated world, who shines a light for future generations of female artists.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations

Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Features
Running time: 112 mins
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Producer: Pamela Koffler, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Christine Vachon, Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters
Co-Producer: Caroline Levy, Ildiko Kemeny, David Minkowski
Executive Producer: Mary Burke, Svetlana Metkina, Norman Merry
Editor: Lucia Zucchetti
Screenwriter: Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Director of Photography: Giles Nuttgens
Production Designer: Michael Carlin
Composer: Thomas Adès
Principal cast: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pugh, Eleanor Tomlinson, Julian Wadham, Al Weaver, Shannon Tarbet, Ray Panthaki, Dickie Beau, Jake Graf, Janine Harouni, Aiysha Hart, Polina Litvak, Johnny K. Palmer, Rebecca Root and Arabella Weir
Costume Designer: Andrea Flesch

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, US coproduction

Number 9 Films (UK), Killer Films (US) with support of BFI (UK)

Number 9 Films

8-9 Stephen Mews
London
W1T 1AF

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Sales Company

HanWay Films

24 Hanway Street
London
W1T 1UH

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