Colette
Where to start with: Colette
James Hopkin looks at why, 150 years after her birth, the pioneering French writer still deserves our attention
James Hopkin
23, Feb, 2023 @5:17 PM
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in January
Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
Saba Sams, John Self and Guardian readers
01, Feb, 2023 @12:19 PM
French culture has a long fascination with serial killers | Letter
Letter: Richard Tomlinson points to the wide interest in the trial of Henri Désiré Landru 100 years ago, in response to an article that claimed the serial killer concept was not yet ‘a cultural vogue’ in the 1990s
Letters
18, Nov, 2021 @5:50 PM
Colette’s tempestuous summer of 1911, as described in 1973
Events took a turn for the melodramatic, even by the French novelist’s high standards of melodrama. By Chris Hall
Chris Hall
05, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM
Colette review – Keira Knightley shines as a racy writer wronged
Dominic West plays the French author’s exploitative husband in this invigorating and kinky biopic set during the belle époque
Peter Bradshaw
09, Jan, 2019 @2:00 PM
Why Colette is queen of the influencers
A new biopic of Colette starring Keira Knightley explores the enduring appeal of the French novelist, polymath and style legend
Lauren Cochrane
09, Jan, 2019 @11:00 AM
Wild, controversial and free: Colette, a life too big for film
Promiscuous in art and love, an early adopter of weightlifting and facelifts ... Colette was way ahead of her time – and no biopic has done justice to her complexity
Aida Edemariam
07, Jan, 2019 @9:00 AM
Colette review – Keira Knightley shines in gritty, glamorous biopic
Knightley plays a woman reclaiming her voice in Wash Westmoreland’s beautiful biopic of the French author
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
06, Jan, 2019 @8:00 AM
Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick'
The star of Colette on Harvey Weinstein, Disney princesses and why her visceral essay about childbirth and the Duchess of Cambridge hit a nerve
Catherine Shoard
28, Dec, 2018 @7:00 AM
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