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Violette

2013 · 132 min · Director: Martin Provost ★ IMDb 6.8 · 2,324 ratings

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Violette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their lives, a relationship based on the quest for freedom through writing for Violette and conviction for Simone to have in their hands the fate of an extraordinary writer.

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Violette (2013) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 35%, Empathy 25%, Sadness 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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Why it feels this way

The strongest emotional signals are Melancholy, Empathy, Sadness. Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Melancholy, Empathy and Sadness. Its IMDb rating of 6.8/10 suggests a generally positive audience reception. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 69/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Sadness
  • Empathy
  • Hope

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Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Sadness

Dominant emotion: Empathy

Dominant emotion: Hope

Dominant emotion: Love

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Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then dips around 53 %, then peaks around 83 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensitySadnessEmpathyHope
2.5 %≈ 3′Tension50 %38 %42 %15 %
7.5 %≈ 10′Sadness61 %53 %53 %13 %
12.5 %≈ 17′Sadness59 %50 %50 %10 %
17.5 %≈ 23′Empathy48 %29 %39 %23 %
22.5 %≈ 30′Hope53 %26 %40 %44 %
27.5 %≈ 36′Sadness59 %43 %49 %48 %
32.5 %≈ 43′Empathy56 %48 %53 %38 %
37.5 %≈ 50′Sadness54 %45 %50 %31 %
42.5 %≈ 56′Sadness53 %46 %49 %31 %
47.5 %≈ 63′Sadness51 %44 %49 %35 %
52.5 %≈ 69′Hope48 %36 %45 %35 %
57.5 %≈ 76′Empathy52 %43 %51 %30 %
62.5 %≈ 83′Sadness61 %48 %57 %35 %
67.5 %≈ 89′Hope56 %30 %46 %44 %
72.5 %≈ 96′Love53 %28 %44 %38 %
77.5 %≈ 102′Sadness64 %52 %60 %24 %
82.5 %≈ 109′Sadness73 %68 %69 %18 %
87.5 %≈ 116′Sadness65 %53 %57 %28 %
92.5 %≈ 122′Hope60 %40 %50 %44 %
97.5 %≈ 129′Sadness67 %52 %58 %50 %
Rags to riches

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Sandrine Kiberlain

Simone de Beauvoir

Olivier Gourmet

Jacques Guérin

FB
Frans Boyer

Le jeune paysan

CH
Catherine Hiegel

Berthe Leduc

JB
Jacques Bonnaffé

Jean Genet

OP
Olivier Py

Maurice Sachs

SW
Stanley Weber

Le jeune maçon

JT
Jean Toscane

Monsieur Motté

NC
Nicole Colchat

Madame Belaval

Fabrizio Rongione

Yvon Belaval

EC
Erwan Creignou

Marcel

VS
Vincent Schmitt

Un forain

JD
Jean-Paul Dubois

Ernest

PF
Paulette Frantz

Madame Moustier

VK
Valérie Kéruzoré

La secrétaire des éditions Gallimard

SJ
Sylvie Jobert

La libraire

TN
Thierry Nenez

Le concierge

MT
Marie-Aline Thomassin

La secrétaire de Jacques Guérin

Details

Directed by
Martin Provost
Written by
Martin Provost, Marc Abdelnour, René de Ceccatty
Type
Movies
Released
2013
Runtime
132 min
Country
France, Belgium
Ratings
★ IMDb 6.8 · 2,324 ratings
Feels mostly
Melancholy
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