Colette (1951)

In conversation, in her Paris apartment, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, mime, dancer, novelist, wonders whether she should give the green light to a proposed film about the houses in which she lived. “I’m no longer photogenic,” she insists; nearly 80, marriages, affair with a stepson and intermittent lesbianism behind her, refusing now even to mention the arthritis that confines and assaults her, Colette is vivacious. Yannick Bellon’s captivating postmodernist film, as much a study of evanescence as any poem by Dickinson, segues into the film that Colette, a few years before her end, has just said she doesn’t want to do. Giving voice(over) to her own commentary, she goes back, first, to the home in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, where she was born.

Released March 31, 1951 21 min None+

Genres: Biography, Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.one-actor, tmdb.woman-director, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.colette, imdb.character-name-in-title, imdb.writing, imdb.writer, aspectratio.1-37-1

Watch Providers: Hoopla, OVID

Production Companies: Les Films Jacqueline Jacoupy

Country: France
Production Country: France
Languages: French