Martin Provost’s Violette looks at the the real life story of Simone De Beauvoir’s literary muse Violette Leduc. A writer herself, Violette – played by Emmanuelle Devos – led a troubled, emotional life, always wanting what she could never have. Although she was a lesbian, she was prone to falling in love with heterosexual women and gay men alike and became obsessed with De Beauvoir who did not reciprocate.

Full of left bank literary and philosophical history, the film gives us an honest insight into a writer’s world.

Violette opens in cinemas on October 3rd. 

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