Six sapphic movies to stream during Pride Month
By Anna Govert
Colette (2018)
Colette is a biographical story about one of the most influential French authors of all time and how her writing career morphed into a cultural phenomenon. Colette (Keira Knightley), a young writer from the country, marries author Willy (Dominic West) and moves to Paris with him, promising a life of luxury. However, when Willy’s career begins to decline, she begins to ghostwrite his novels, writing the semi-autobiographical hit novel “Claudine at School.”
Throughout the film, she realizes her worth and the importance of her voice, fighting for creative ownership of her works, all while exploring her own sexuality and identity outside of Willy and the novels she wrote for him. Directed by out film director, Wash Westmorland, Colette uses the conventions and expectations of the past regarding gender, sexuality, and identity and uses them to tell the true story of a woman simply ahead of her time.