Colette - The art of being free

Paris at the beginning of the 20th century: the great Parisian salons set the tone for an intense artistic life. Writers, composers and painters inspired each other, all driven by a common desire to transcend boundaries and genres, to break free from conventions and discover new forms of expression.

In this effervescence, the paths of Ravel, Debussy, Boulanger and Poulenc cross with the extraordinary fate of a woman and artist whose thirst for freedom cannot be quenched: Colette. An encounter that will change the course of her life and produce masterpieces of music and literature.

A writer, but also a variety artist and journalist, Colette became a music critic for the newspaper "Gil Blas" alongside Debussy and wrote the libretto for the lyrical fantasy "L'enfant et les sortilèges", for which Ravel composed the music.

"If only you could understand the strength and weakness with which what I love fills me! Alors voilà! I want to do what I want."

She makes the courageous decision to free herself from marital bonds, to love the men and women she desires, to take possession of her body again by "earning her own meal, her own dress, her own rent" as a pantomime on stage. She perceives the world sensually, observes, turns her writer's gaze, curious about everything and above all about details, about people's lives, narrates reality, writes openly about sexuality, with a musicality of language that makes her a unique writer