Review of Violette (2013) by Erich V — 30 Jul 2014
I'll say nothing fancy or ambiguous: "Violette" is one of the best French ismovies I've ever seen, right up there with "Place Vendome," "Beneath the Sand," "Rosetta," "Read My Lips," "Brotherhood of the Wolf," "La Nuit de Varennes.
" The story is about a woman who, abused and neglected as a child, is frantic for love. That is the story, not about a writer, bookworm, intellectual. She is intensely needy for love. This is her story; it's not the story of the ambition of an "engagee intellectual.
" This person, Violette, is passionate and must come to grips with her own obsessions... It is not the story of a "friendship." Such a boring subject is far from this; neither is it a "Simone de Beauvoir story: either.
It is strictly about Violette, always frantic and at lose ends... Her lesbianism, which is not at all shocking, is only incidental to the child's quest for love, which is and is the subject from the very first seconds of the film until the end.
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This review of Violette (2013) was written by Erich V on 30 Jul 2014.
Violette has generally received positive reviews.
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