Colette Movie Review
A decent biopic with some problems
I wanted to see Colette staring Keira Knightley when it came out in theaters, but unfortunately I missed it, and was unable to see the film until recently. In general, I do like Keira Knightley's work, but she has done a miss now and again.
Colette follows the life and work of a French writer known as Colette. She's a country girl at heart, but ends up marrying a city man from Paris, named Willy (Dominic West) who is an author himself. They fall on hard times, and as the money is drying up it only gets worse. One day Willy goes back and looks for an old story Colette wrote, and decides to take a chance and publishes it. The book is called Claudine à l'école
, and it becomes a smash hit in Paris, and soon the rest of France catches on. Yet trouble remains between Willy and Colette, and their marriage is soon tested.
So, the actors did fine in this movie, and Keira Knightley was pretty good in the film, and she ended up doing... certain... things that I did not expect to occur in the movie. Dominic West did an interesting job portraying Willy, I thought he was an entertaining actor, but there was some room for improvement.
Biopic films tend to have a problem, and they don't really seem to have much of a sense of direction for their plot. sure the film know's what it's doing, but it always seems like it's a string of events rather than a cohesive story. I understand that they are presenting someone's life, but that is no excuse to put in half the effort. They always end up being okay.
The sets and costumes in this movie were very good, and I loved the overall feel that this film produced. It was eye candy in some regards if you are interested in this time period. I however am not familiar with this period as much, but I do know a little bit about it. Whomever was the person that chose the costumes, I applaud them.
This film does suffer heavily from BAS, unfortunately. If you are unaware of what BAS is, it stands for, British Accent Syndrome, and it's when you're in a non-British country and all the actors have a British accent. For example, a film that came out a few years ago called, Les Miserables
. Yet it can work in other things such as the amazing show, Rome
(I plan on reviewing at some point, wink wink).
The Director of this film Wash Westmoreland, is not a common name that I am aware of, but I have seen another one of his films, Still Alice, and I thought that Still Alice
was a decent enough film on it's own. Wash Westmoreland is clearly not a bad director, but there is room for improvement in his skill. I'm going to repeat this, he is not a bad director, he just needs to improve somewhat.
Colette is a decent enough film, and if you are into biopics, then you might just find yourself a nice little film to entertain yourself with. If you aren't however, then Colette is probably not the film for you. By no means was this a bad film, just one that could have used a few improvements from time to time.
final score: 3/5
Colette follows the life and work of a French writer known as Colette. She's a country girl at heart, but ends up marrying a city man from Paris, named Willy (Dominic West) who is an author himself. They fall on hard times, and as the money is drying up it only gets worse. One day Willy goes back and looks for an old story Colette
wrote, and decides to take a chance and publishes it. The book is called Claudine à l'école
, and it becomes a smash hit in Paris, and soon the rest of France catches on. Yet trouble remains between Willy and Colette, and their marriage is soon tested.So, the actors did fine in this movie, and Keira Knightley was pretty good in the film, and she ended up doing... certain... things that I did not expect to occur in the movie. Dominic West did an interesting job portraying Willy, I thought he was an entertaining actor, but there was some room for improvement.
Biopic films tend to have a problem, and they don't really seem to have much of a sense of direction for their plot. sure the film know's what it's doing, but it always seems like it's a string of events rather than a cohesive story. I understand that they are presenting someone's life, but that is no excuse to put in half the effort. They always end up being okay.
The sets and costumes in this movie were very good, and I loved the overall feel that this film produced. It was eye candy in some regards if you are interested in this time period. I however am not familiar with this period as much, but I do know a little bit about it. Whomever was the person that chose the costumes, I applaud them.
This film does suffer heavily from BAS, unfortunately. If you are unaware of what BAS is, it stands for, British Accent Syndrome, and it's when you're in a non-British country and all the actors have a British accent. For example, a film that came out a few years ago called, Les Miserables
. Yet it can work in other things such as the amazing show, Rome
(I plan on reviewing at some point, wink wink).The Director of this film Wash Westmoreland, is not a common name that I am aware of, but I have seen another one of his films, Still Alice, and I thought that Still Alice
was a decent enough film on it's own. Wash Westmoreland is clearly not a bad director, but there is room for improvement in his skill. I'm going to repeat this, he is not a bad director, he just needs to improve somewhat.Colette
is a decent enough film, and if you are into biopics, then you might just find yourself a nice little film to entertain yourself with. If you aren't however, then Colette is probably not the film for you. By no means was this a bad film, just one that could have used a few improvements from time to time.final score: 3/5
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