Colette (2018)

Aiysha Hart and Rebecca Root pop up in Wash Westmoreland’s costume drama Colette (2018). Like past productions, which include the skinterntional biopic Becoming Colette (1991) and the French miniseries Colette (1985), this R rated film tells the story of France’s Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) who gained fame as an actress, mime, and authoress of the novella “Gigi” (1944). Years before, the ingénue was living in rural Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. And that’s where this flick begins. After Colette (Keira Knightley) weds Henry “Willy” Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West), they move to Paris where she begins writing books under her husband’s name. But as the novels become a success, her desire to claim ownership of her own work starts to grow — as do her desires for other women! In fact, Georgie Raoul-Duval (Eleanor Tomlinson) reveals her rack as well as her same-sex attraction for Colette when the lesbians lock lips! There’s even a montage of sex scenes between them, although they miraculously (and disappointedly) keep their clothes on. The same goes for Colette and Mathilde de Morny (Denise Gough) who also engage in some frisky business while fully dressed. What’s the point of a period piece if the star doesn’t show her piece? At least, Ms. Knightley flashes her breast in one scene. Plus, she wears a sexy Cleopatra outfit and Denise dons a gender-bending suit when the dyke-namic duo share a sapphic smooch at the Moulin Rouge. The exchange may have outraged the audience at the time, but it will arouse a standing ovation in your trousers!