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After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.Read moreLess
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
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After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
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Keira KnightleyColette
Dominic WestWilly
Denise GoughMissy
Fiona ShawSido
Robert PughJules
Eleanor TomlinsonGeorgie Raoul-Duval
Ray PanthakiVeber
Dickie BeauWague
Jake GrafGaston De Caillavet
Polina LitvakLily
Rebecca RootRachilde
Máté HaumannCount MuffatExplore the crew
- Producer
- Elizabeth Karlsen
- Producer
- Christine Vachon
- Producer
- Pamela Koffler
- Producer
- Stephen Woolley
- Editor
- Lucia Zucchetti
- Producer
- Michel Litvak
- Director
- Wash Westmoreland
- Producer
- Gary Michael Walters
- Screenplay
- Wash Westmoreland
- Screenplay
- Richard Glatzer
- Screenplay
- Rebecca Lenkiewicz
- Original Music Composer
- Thomas Adès
- Director of Photography
- Giles Nuttgens