Filmmaker Wash Westmoreland first wrote Colette, the story of Nobel Prize-winning French novelist Sidone-Gabrielle Colette, back in 2001. The script went through 15 drafts, and three title changes: Colette and Willy, All She Wrote, and The Real Claudine before he settled on Colette.
Why the long wait? Other productions kept landing on his schedule, however, there isn’t a better time than now for the Time’s Up era to hear the story of Colette, whose voice was silenced by her husband, Willy. She was part of his writing factory and she conceived the bestselling Claudine books about a brazen witty French country girl (not unlike herself). Colette asked Willy for her pen-name to appear on subsequent novels after they became a hit and he refused. She ultimately left him, and embraced the lesbian life she wanted to live in early 20th Century Paris.
“It’s built up to a zeitgeist, a critical mass,...
Why the long wait? Other productions kept landing on his schedule, however, there isn’t a better time than now for the Time’s Up era to hear the story of Colette, whose voice was silenced by her husband, Willy. She was part of his writing factory and she conceived the bestselling Claudine books about a brazen witty French country girl (not unlike herself). Colette asked Willy for her pen-name to appear on subsequent novels after they became a hit and he refused. She ultimately left him, and embraced the lesbian life she wanted to live in early 20th Century Paris.
“It’s built up to a zeitgeist, a critical mass,...
- 10/13/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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