Violette

IMDb link: 2976920
IMDb rating: 6.8 (2,308 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography, Romance
Director: Sandrine Kiberlain, Martin Provost
Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Hiegel and others

Release date: 6 Nov 2013
Release year: 2013
Runtime: 139 minutes
Country: France, Belgium
Keywords: lesbian, reference to the bastard the novel, baseboard, character name as title, first time sex, writing, writer, freedom, bastard, strong female character

Plot:

Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Pres. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through writing for Violette and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.

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