‘Colette’ Is A Thoroughly Modern Fille

Willy (Dominic West) and Colette (Keira Knightley) audition prospective Claudines in Wash Westmoreland

Wash Westmoreland’s biopic of a French literary lioness is well-acted, gorgeously mounted and weighed down with incongruously modern speeches about sexuality and gender.

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