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'Colette' Is A Thoroughly Modern Fille

Wash Westmoreland's biopic of a French literary lioness is well-acted, gorgeously mounted and weighed down with incongruously modern speeches about sexuality and gender.
Willy (Dominic West) and Colette (Keira Knightley) audition prospective Claudines in Wash Westmoreland's <em>Colette</em>.

What if Merchant-Ivory ... but woke?

What if you took the sumptuous production design of A Room With a View or Howards End — all those bustles and corsets and dickeys and top hats, all those horse-drawn carriages and calling cards and country estates — and invested it with a new sense, and/or sensibility, of this our modern age?

I'll tell you what if., is what if.

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