WOMEN IN UNREQUITED LOVE: Movie review of Violette

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Violette_1_largeViolette, the new biopic of French feminist writer Violette Ludec (she was a contemporary of Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre and Jean Genet), is a beautiful film to watch. From a technical standpoint, I think anyone would be hard pressed to find much fault with it. The cinematography is gorgeously, if not depressingly, dark; the sets and costumes faithfully rendered; the music score is enticing; the story is never uninteresting.

At the same time, when it was over, I have to be honest and say that I never really had an emotional connection to the title character. Read the rest of this entry »