When we first meet Colette, she is a wide-eyed country girl caught in a whirlwind romance with Paris lothario Henry Gauthier-Villars, better known by his penname Willy (Dominic West, pictured below).
As her husband Henri Gauthier-Villars (“Willy” to his friends), West bursts with bombastic exuberance as the entrepreneurial author and critic who shamelessly co-opted the work of other writers under ...