 What's going on guys, got a brand new movie review for you guys today and today I'm discussing Colette. Colette is the brand new film starring Keir Knightley and it's about a girl named Colette who's pushed by her husband to write novels under his name upon their success. She fights to make her towns known, challenging gender norms. Now again, this seems like one of those typical biopics that's gonna get shoved under the rug and it's gonna make a little bit of money but not a lot and there's gonna be some great performances in here and pretty much in the sense become an Oscar bait film. Is it an Oscar bait film? I don't think so. I find this film to actually be very well done and in a lot of different ways. A lot of that going to the performances and the direction of this movie which are superbly strong. I don't really know where to start up because this film really surprised me. I knew I was probably gonna enjoy it but I didn't know how much I would really enjoy this movie. I think one of the main reasons that I really enjoyed this film was because of Keir Knightley's performance. She is superb in here. Now when the film starts you're kind of like getting into you're like oh she's doing a good job but there comes a couple moments towards the back half of the movie that everything just builds to that point and she just gives a ferocious, I mean a ferocious performance in all light. Point where I was getting emotional I was like yes girl do it do it. So Dominic West plays her husband in here who Dominic West is one of those actors who shows up in stuff and does such a damn good job and in this he does another good job too. I don't think it's like Oscar caliber stuff because I think out of all the performances of this year Keir Knightley gives one of the best that I've seen so far but Dominic West again is still one of those best. He does a great job portraying this husband giving those emotional beats but it's Keir Knightley that really steals the whole show from every other performance in here. Be honest again with all the different types of characters in this film that Collette gets to meet and all the different types of events that she has to go through one of the big things that makes this film stand out the most for me especially all year long is one how the director decided to shoot this film. Yes the cinematography is beautiful it pans a picture I mean it's this biopic type of world where it takes you to Paris where it takes you to the late 1800s and the early 1900s it paints you into there and pushes you into there where it looks beautiful but also not just the score which is superb and amazing but also the cinematography and the way that the director paints you into here again it makes you feel like you're there. This is a film that I don't think you would enjoy as much at home but a film that you should see on the big screen for that aspect because it makes you feel like you're there and not a lot of filmmakers can accomplish that without a doubt Wash Westmoreland really did a good job on accomplishing that on every level. Those interesting tidbits that I think he did was every single time Keir Knightley was on the screen she was in the center of the screen not on the side not on the left not on the right not in the back room but every single time she's on the screen she's in the center of the stage always frame centrally and that's something that early on in the film I was like oh that's a cool thing but throughout the film I started noticing I was like that is such a talented director to really just put it subtly in there and not feel distracting but feel like it's a representation of who the character is even when her husband's taking all the credit for all these certain events that she's doing she's still in the center and it really goes to show that yes the Colette is our singular character that you are following throughout this no matter who or what or why they're taking credits for what she's doing. The story in here is riveting it's really top to bottom it's great I think if I did have one con to it I do feel like the pacing in here is a little bit slow in the beginning it takes a little bit to get to where it's going but when it finally gets to starts building up to what is going on because they do have to build up this relationship it works being even more honest I would have really liked to see this film as a mini series I feel like there's a lot of details in here that they could have gone more about in Colette's life and some details that they kind of just brush over that I would have liked to focus more on. The character study type of movie Karen Knightley kills it as Colette the director did such a good job framing her in each shot and the cinematography and the score in here are superb and this film would be very underrated and when it comes to biopics it's sometimes a little bit hard for me to recommend that yes you need to see this film in the theater there are certain films I'm like yeah if you watch it at home you can get the same effect I find this film to be one of those that you have to see in the theater to get the effect that I got all of a sudden I'm going to give Colette a B plus here you guys excited to see this film comment down below tell me your thoughts have you seen it already let's talk about it so if you guys are new here hit up sandwich on films right down there because right down there you guys can get into advanced movie streams even check out some movie news and even some movie reviews but of course guys until next time stay classy