Bleecker Street has released the first trailer for Colette. Variety reported that "Keira Knightley stars as the eponymous Parisian novelist struggling through an abusive and exploitative marriage to Henry Gauthier-Villars, played by Dominic West. During their marriage, Gauthier-Villars forced Colette to write her famous Claudine novels under his name, reaping the fame and financial rewards that came with the novels' success."
In a recent interview, Knightley told Variety that screenwriter Richard Glazer and director Walsh Westmoreland "labored for 15 years to get the film financed" and that the timing of the movie's release in the midst of the #Time'sUp and #MeToo movements "isn't coincidental. She said the pic's plot revolving around Colette's revolt against her abusive husband and her affair with Marquise de Belbeuf, a notable gender-defying lesbian artist of the time, draws parallels to the stories being told today." Colette premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is set to hit theaters September 21.