Colette

Cast: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw

Keira Knightley has never met a corset she doesn’t want to get cinched, nor a petticoat or hat that she couldn’t slip on and take an audience back in time. The number of period costume dramas that the Oscar-nominated actress has starred in are too numerous to count on two hands but include Atonement, The Duchess, Pride and

Prejudice and now Colette, about the famed French author of the same name. Directed by the man who made Still Alice with Julianne Moore, Colette is another intimate character drama about a woman confronting the world’s hostilities. Of course, despite the French origins of the story, Colette has been given a British make-over with Knightley’s plum British accent just one among those of a large cast of British actors including Dominic West as Colette’s husband and Harry

Potter’s Fiona Shaw as her mother. It’s lovely to look at and Knightley is typically delightful, but an off-screen glance into Collette’s private life shows she was far more interesting than just costumes and romance.