Colette (2018) is one of those films that quickly falls by the wayside. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was a French woman ahead of her time and a trendsetter for most of her 81 years of life. She was a writer, actress, journalist, amateur photographer and mime. The film shows this through a sample of part of her life focusing on her first marriage, her initial literary production, which was appropriated by her husband and by the unconventional side of the writer. In my opinion Colette stands out much more for being a woman ahead of her time than for her limited literary contributions. The film Gigi (1958) had a relative success and is based on one of her books, Gigi, published in French in 1944.
