Colette

Writing

Colette

Born — Died

1873-01-28 — 1954-08-03

Place of birth

Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, France

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

Colette's fame extends to being probably the only female writer known by her mononym—She is always and only Colette, though in fact this most feminine of names was her surname: She was born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette on 28 January 1873 in the French village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. Her work—mostly at novella length, short and sharp—survives because her chief subject is one that never goes out of fashion. "Love, the bread and butter of my pen," she wrote, though she put it more bluntly in her book The Pure and the Impure (1932): "The flesh, always the flesh, the mysteries and betrayals and frustrations and surprises of the flesh." The story of Colette and her work is one of the most asto…

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Based on one of Colette's novels, a young woman cannot remember the dog that visits her in a dream.

A dream

2026

Paris Was a Woman poster
6.4

Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.

Paris Was a Woman

1996

Paris 1900 poster
5.7

Nicole Védrès' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.

Paris 1900

1948

The Other Woman poster
8.0

In The Other Woman, Farou (Jean Rochetfort) is an author whose success is matched only by his lechery. During the rehearsal of his newest play, a scandal unfolds. Farou's wife Fanny (Anne Duperey) knows that during his "creative periods," Farou gets a particular itch that he can't resist scratching, but her own jealousy has finally reached the boiling point. It starts when Jane (Caroline Sihol), the deliciously sexy secretary that Farou has brought on as a live in assistant, falls in love with the artist.

The Other Woman

1990

Divine poster
7.0

A country girl finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.

Divine

1935

Colette, l'insoumise poster
7.6

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…

Colette, l'insoumise

2019

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