Danny Huston's BECOMING COLETTE is a lushly photographed and erotically charged rendering of the life of legendary French authoress Gabrielle Colette.
Gabrielle (Mathilda May) is a beautiful country girl in her late teens. Well educated and independent, she is the daughter of an unsuccessful author, and she too has a fondness for writing. Gabrielle keeps a diary at her father's insistence. When a publisher from Paris, Henri Gauthier-Villars
(Klaus-Maria Brandauer), visits her home, he is taken with the innocence and beauty of the young girl. Before long they are married and living in Henri's Paris apartment. The virginal Gabrielle gives herself fully to her new ...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins