Colette isn't intense on process, but it does illustrate well what might motivate a writer, how her unique spirit is stoked and developed. It's a friendly, gregarious film, never too dark or pondering, instead gliding lightly and nimbly through a decade
a towering performance from Keira Knightley, who plays Colette with such warmth and fiery feminism, that it would be hard not to make woman's past run parallel with today's world