The biographical film, although not the expected Ji film, is far better than expected. The rhythm and structure are very smooth, the lines are especially good, and the subtitles team is very good. Colette (1873-1954), his life is quite legendary. Her husband is a well-known writer in Paris, and Colette is one of a group of shadow writers around her. The husband and wife maintained an open marriage relationship, and each played his own way. Colette was considered bisexual, and it was avant-garde at that time. Colette not only wrote, but also did a stage play with a men’s countess (today can be called a female-to-male), traveling around the film only about Colette’s writing activities and emotional life in the first half of his life. In the end, Colette divorced her husband and fought for the authorship of her work. Friends who want to watch love stories or Jiqing may be disappointed. All the boat scenes in it do not involve emotional depth, but only show an emotional attitude or inclination: I am the master of my body. The logical result must be that I am the master of my works and my life. Feminist awareness is too obvious, although this awareness may not be a French author biopic that the creator wants to emphasize, the characters speak English, and with Keira Knightley starring, it is hard not to recognize her beauty. The outrageous Pride and Prejudice (2005), the words independent, determined, and intelligent, can also be used for Colette in this film. But the real Colette may be more complicated, that is to say, she is definitely not someone in the classical moral world of Jane Austen
In addition, judging from the description of the film, I thought Colette was a best-selling author, but in fact she was a well-known serious writer at the time. Somerset Maugham's "Summary" (1938) said: "A good style of writing has no trace of effort, and what you write should look like an accident. In France today, I don't think anyone writes more impressively than Colette. It's admirable; she's so poised in her work that you won't believe how much effort she put into writing. I've been told that some pianists have a natural technique, and the way they play, the great Most performers can only be mastered with uninterrupted effort; I'd rather believe that some writers are just as lucky. I'm very inclined to put Colette among such writers. I asked her once. I was amazed when I wrote it over and over again. She told me that she often spent the whole morning on one page of manuscript paper."
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