The incredible life of novelist, screenwriter, actress and nude dancer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), who led her life to the beat, constantly reinventing herself through words, scandals and metamorphoses; a peasant woman who became an icon of the European Belle Époque; an artist who defied religion and social prejudices to live a hedonist existence worthy of her desires; a real woman who turned herself into a fictional character…
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Roche Productions, ARTE
Keywords
- sex scandal
- icon
- novelist
- sexual attitudes
- portrait of an artist
- social norms
- social scandal
- belle epoque
- famous actress
- nude dancing
Links
Top Cast
Colette as Herself - Writer (archive footage)
Top Crew
Cécile Denjean · Director
Nathalie Ansellem · Editor
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