Review of Violette (2013) by Vishnupriya B — 07 Dec 2014

An intense film about intense relationships between two intense women.

This review of Violette (2013) was written by Vishnupriya B on 07 Dec 2014.

Violette has generally received positive reviews.

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By Stefan Pape (613) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 02 Oct 2014

Martin Provost ambitiously expands his tale across decades to give us a substantial look into a changing society through the eyes of one, influential…

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By Ws W (1,791) on 13 Apr 2015

Emmanuelle Devos is good; Sandrine Kiberlain is even almost unrecognizable. The film, however, is rather flat…

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By John Powers (147) for NPR's Fresh Air (33) on 15 May 2018

The film was directed and co-written by Martin Provost, who's clearly drawn to women once called difficult…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 11 Jun 2014

A few excerpts of Leduc’s prose spoken in voiceover, expressing the same feelings poetically, can’t compensate for over two hours of maudlin…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Jun 2014

As presented here, the novelist Violette Leduc is fascinating and strangely lovable, at least as seen from the audience…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 25 Jun 2014

Violette doesn't abandon that playbook, but it does a better job than most of putting the viewer in its artist's headspace…

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By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 22 Jun 2014

Unevenness is Leduc's between sophistication and naiveté, yet this is a candid tribute to how her and Beauvoir's idiosyncratic partnership…

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By Walter M (1,360) on 08 Jul 2014

During the occupation, Violette Leduc(Emmanuelle Devos) works in the black market in order to support her and her lackadaisical friend Maurice(Olivier…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 18 Jun 2014

Frank, harsh, emotionally harrowing and, much like its subject, difficult…

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By David Parkinson (764) for Radio Times (2,421) on 02 Oct 2014

A beautiful true-life character study that does elegant justice to a largely unheralded writer…

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