Colette

The movie's treatment of her same-sex affairs may be as tasteful as the set design, but the film is an absorbing introduction to a trailblazing artist.

Keira Knightley is magnetic in a Paris-set period drama with a dollop of queer feminist energy.

[Keira Knightley] gets far more to do and is infinitely better at it than usual in the brisk new period piece Colette

In the wrong films Knightley is a pretty girl with a small bag of tricks. In the right ones she's formidable. Crucially here, she also cuts it as a wordsmith.

Knightley's Colette is fine too. But nothing more. The role required a maelstrom of tortured angst and rousing defiance to support the weight of the film. It never arrived.

Knightley, as the titular French writer, has seldom been better or more dazzling.

Keira Knightley shines as the famous French author who bravely explores both her emerging literary voice and her bisexuality.

Everything happens in a documentary capsule, one of mourning, of crying let loose, of memory, but above all, of Resistance. [Full review in Spanish]

All in all, it’s a satisfying cinematic experience. Is a little less Willy and a bit more Missy too much to ask?

Keira Knightley may not be French, but she is wonderful as the legendary French author Colette.