Though its subject was real, the French biopic “Violette” feels more like a thought experiment: What if a brilliant and daring female artist was just as self-indulgent and self-pitying as the vilest ...

Simone de Beauvoir (Sandrine Kiberlain) counsels Violette Leduc (Emmanuelle Devos) in "Violette." (Adopt Films ) "Well-behaved women rarely make history," goes the bumper sticker, and the makers of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Based on the life and work of Violette Leduc (1907-1972), a French writer known for such raw, autobiographical works as the 1964 memoir “La Bâtarde (The ...

The people behind me at the screening of Violette were a bit confused at the end of the movie, even though they were probably only a few years older than me, or about the average age of today’s ...

In the new French film Violette, Emmanuelle Devos plays a fictionalized character based on Violette Leduc, the trailblazing French novelist. Americans put a lot of stock in being likable. Pollsters ...

Sitting beneath an apple tree, Violette is having a vision. She puts down her pen to gaze upward into a sky laced with thin branches. In this early scene in the film "Violette," it is as though this ...

Martin Provost's second biopic of a French female artist stars Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain as Violette Leduc and her mentor/object of desire Simone de Beauvoir. By Boyd van Hoeij The film ...

In "Violette," Emmanuelle Devos plays a talented artist and an emotional wreck - a woman as incapable of writing a boring sentence as she was of escaping her own self-loathing. The film about novelist ...

A successful film bio meets the considerable challenge of balancing substance with style, while avoiding being salaciously foolish or boringly reverent. “Violette” could serve as a primer on how to do ...

Drama. Starring Emmanuelle Devos and Sandrine Kiberlain. Directed by Martin Provost. In French with English subtitles. (Not rated. 132 minutes.) In "Violette," Emmanuelle Devos plays a talented artist ...

“Violette” is the kind of film in which you can almost smell the characters’ perfume; a literate, leisurely and lovely telling of one woman’s attempt to find what Virginia Woolf famously called “a ...