Colette

In conversation in her Paris apartment SidonieGabrielle Colette mime dancer novelist wonders whether she should give the green light to a proposed film about the houses in which she lived Im no longer photogenic she insists nearly 80 marriages affair with a stepson and intermittent lesbianism behind her refusing now even to mention the arthritis that confines and assaults her Colette is vivacious Yannick Bellons captivating postmodernist film as much a study of evanescence as any poem by Dickinson segues into the film that Colette a few years before her end has just said she doesnt want to do Giving voiceover to her own commentary she goes back first to the home in SaintSauveurenPuisaye Yonne where she was born