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Violette (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Violette' is a 2013 French-Belgian biographical drama film written and directed by Martin Provost, about the French novelist Violette Leduc. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Plot
During the last years of World War II, Violette Leduc lives with Maurice Sachs, who doesn't love her but who does encourage her to write. She seeks out Simone de Beauvoir and eventually presents her with a draft of her first book. De Beauvoir rewards Violette's trust by reading and commenting on the book and by introducing her to contemporary intellectual icons Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Albert Camus. In 1964, the success of Violette Leduc's autobiographical bestseller 'La Btarde' enables her to earn a living from her writing.
Cast
*Emmanuelle Devos as Violette Leduc
*Sandrine Kiberlain as Simone de Beauvoir
*Jacques Bonnaff as Jean Genet
*Olivier Gourmet as Jacques Gurin
*Catherine Hiegel as Berthe Leduc
*Stanley Weber as Le jeune maon
Reception
'Violette' received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 86%, based on 50 reviews, with an average score of 7.2/10. The site's consensus reads, "Led by an outstanding performance from Emmanuelle Devos, 'Violette' is a rewarding, bracingly honest look at social mores and the literary life.". At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 72, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Peter Bradshaw of 'The Guardian' gave 'Violette' 4 out of 5 and said that "Emmanuelle Devos brings enormous charisma to this story of writerly ambition and romantic disappointment".
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