Violette (film)

Violette is a 2013 French-Belgian biographical drama film written and directed by Martin Provost, about the French novelist Violette Leduc.[2] It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]

Violette
Film poster
Directed by	Martin Provost
Produced by	Gilles Sacuto Miléna Poylo
Written by	Martin Provost
Starring	Emmanuelle Devos
Music by	Hugues Tabar-Nouval
Cinematography	Yves Cape
Edited by	Ludo Troch
Distributed by	Diaphana Films (France)
Release date	6 September 2013 (TIFF) 6 November 2013 (France)
Running time	139 minutes
Country	France Belgium
Language	French
Budget	$6 million
Box office	$1.6 million[1]

Plot

During the last years of World War II, Violette Leduc lives with Maurice Sachs, who doesn't love her but who does encourage her to write. She seeks out Simone de Beauvoir and eventually presents her with a draft of her first book. De Beauvoir rewards Violette's trust by reading and commenting on the book and by introducing her to contemporary intellectual icons Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Albert Camus. In 1964, the success of Violette Leduc's autobiographical bestseller La Bâtarde enables her to earn a living from her writing.

Cast

• Emmanuelle Devos as Violette Leduc
• Sandrine Kiberlain as Simone de Beauvoir
• Jacques Bonnaffé as Jean Genet
• Olivier Gourmet as Jacques Guérin
• Catherine Hiegel as Berthe Leduc
• Stanley Weber as Le jeune maçon

Reception

Violette received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 84%, based on 43 reviews, with an average score of 7.2/10. The site's consensus reads, "Led by an outstanding performance from Emmanuelle Devos, Violette is a rewarding, bracingly honest look at social mores and the literary life.".[4] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 72, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[5]

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result
Magritte Awards	Best Foreign Film in Coproduction		Nominated[6]

References

1. "Violette (2013)- JPBox-Office". Retrieved 23 February 2016.
2. "Violette". unifrance.org. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
3. "Violette". TIFF. Archived from the original on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
4. "Violette (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes.
5. "Violette". Metacritic.
6. "Magritte: Pluie de nominations pour les Dardenne et Lucas Belvaux". La Libre Belgique (in French). 7 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.

External links

• Violette at IMDb
• Press kit (en)