TY - ADVS AU - Abdelnour,Marc AU - Ceccatty,René de AU - Devos,Emmanuelle AU - Gourmet,Olivier AU - Kiberlain,Sandrine AU - Poylo,Miléna AU - Provost,Martin AU - Sacuto,Gilles AU - Tabar-Nouval,Hugues ED - Adopt Films ED - Climax Films (Firm), ED - France 3 cinéma (Firm) ED - TS Productions (Firm) TI - Violette PY - 2014///] CY - [United States] PB - Adopt Films KW - Beauvoir, Simone de, KW - Leduc, Violette, KW - Authors, French KW - 20th century KW - Drama KW - Female friendship KW - France KW - Motion pictures, French KW - Biographical films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Fiction films N1 - Duration: 1:38:00; Originally released as a motion picture in 2013; Photography, Yves Cape ; editor, Ludo Troch ; music, Hugues Tabar-Nouval; Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Hiegel, Jacques Bonnaffé, Olivier Py N2 - Violette LeDuc is one of the foremost French writers of the twentieth century. In a beautifully mounted production, director Martin Provost depicts LeDuc's extraordinary life, from her low beginnings as the illegitimate daughter of a servant girl to becoming ensconced in France's literary elite. Violette LeDuc is determined, obsessed even, to make something of her life. Writing is her ticket out of misery, and with the encouragement and mentorship of Simone de Beauvoir, she achieves renown ER -