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Violette

Violette

2013Movie⏱️ 2h 19mNot Rated
BiographyDramaRomance
6.8
IMDB Rating
2,273 votes

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their...

Director
Martin Provost
Writers
Martin Provost, Marc Abdelnour, René de Ceccatty
Stars
Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet
Release Date
November 6, 2013
Language
French
Country
France, Belgium
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Wins
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 9
Reviews
📋 5.1K
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🎭 Top Cast

Emmanuelle Devos
Emmanuelle Devos
as Violette Leduc
Sandrine Kiberlain
Sandrine Kiberlain
as Simone de Beauvoir
Olivier Gourmet
Olivier Gourmet
as Jacques Guérin
Catherine Hiegel
Catherine Hiegel
as Berthe Leduc
Jacques Bonnaffé
Jacques Bonnaffé
as Jean Genet
👤
Olivier Py
as Maurice Sachs
Nathalie Richard
Nathalie Richard
as Hermine
Stanley Weber
Stanley Weber
as Le jeune maçon
👤
Jean Toscan
as Monsieur Motté
👤
Frans Boyer
as Le jeune paysan

💰 Box Office

$1,493,822
Worldwide Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Production
TS Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Climax Films

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

FrenchBiographyDramaRomance

⭐ Featured Review

A woman author pushing through barriers in 20th Century France, told beautifully
by secondtake2015-06-20
7/10

"Violette (2013) Violette Leduc was a French novelist who approached female sensual and sexual subjects, including lesbian affairs, with fresh and original directness. This is one story of her life. portrayed as largely tormented and often filled with a sense of hopelessness. Her writing and her love life was constantly ravaged. But this all happens in beautiful France, so the movie is a gorgeous meandering journey through the 20th Century in pastel, gloomy, golden, timeless countryside. And in the end, for those who care about the real woman, she overcomes. Her death to breast cancer (not in..."

📖 Synopsis

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their...