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* TheEiffelTowerEffect: The film itself only uses one or two slightly less well-known Parisian landmarks (though it can't resist mentioning the in-period debate about the trope namer structure), but the poster designer just ''had'' to include the Eiffel Tower.

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* TheEiffelTowerEffect: EiffelTowerEffect: The film itself only uses one or two slightly less well-known Parisian landmarks (though it can't resist mentioning the in-period debate about the trope namer structure), but the poster designer just ''had'' to include the Eiffel Tower.
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* LoveConfession: Missy, Colette's lover, says he loves her near the end of the film. Colette just says "Thank you" in response, though Missy accepts this.

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* LoveConfession: Missy, Colette's lover, says he loves her near the end of the film. Colette just says "Thank you" in response, though Missy accepts this. Colette later mouths it when they're riding the train together later though.
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* LoveConfession: Missy, Colette's lover, says he loves her near the end of the film. Colette just says "Thank you" in response, though Missy accepts this.

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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The implicit homoeroticism between Claudine and other school girls in a major selling point for the books Colette writes, as Willy encourages, saying not only he but many other men will love this. After she's attracted to Georgie, a rich American woman, Willy also accepts this but makes it clear this only applies to women. Her [[DoubleStandard seeing a man]] is ''not'' okay with him.

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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The implicit homoeroticism between Claudine and other school girls in a major selling point for the books Colette writes, as Willy encourages, saying not only he but many other men will love this. After she's attracted to Georgie, a rich American woman, Willy also accepts this but makes it clear this only applies to women. Her [[DoubleStandard seeing a man]] is ''not'' okay with him. This however is violently {{subverted}} when Missy and Colette stage an erotic act at the Moulin Rouge. Missy's ex-friends attend (who at least perceive them to be two women, whatever [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity the true case for Missy]], and start [[ProducePelting throwing objects angrily]] toward the stage.



* PronounTrouble: Willy is unsure how to address Missy, who's quite androgynous with an {{ambiguous gender identity}}, especially since in French words are strictly gendered.
* QueerEstablishingMoment: After they meet a couple, Colette admits to Willy she found the woman and not the man desirable. He's intrigued, and it's revealed American woman Georgie is also attracted to women. Willy encourages them to have an affair (they do). Before long she meets Missy, who is a ButchLesbian and or transmasculine (always dressing in male clothing), and they have an affair too.
* QueerRomance: Colette's relationships with Georgie (a bisexual women like her) and Missy (a crossdressing lesbian or trans masculine person) are major themes of the film.


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* PronounTrouble: Willy is unsure how to address Missy, who's quite androgynous with an {{ambiguous gender identity}}, especially since in French words are strictly gendered. Colette, Missy's lover, uses he/him pronouns for Missy, correcting Willy using she/her. Missy however does not say what they prefer, at least onscreen.
* QueerEstablishingMoment: After they meet a couple, Colette admits to Willy she found the woman and not the man desirable. He's intrigued, and it's revealed American woman Georgie is also attracted to women. Willy encourages them to have an affair (they do). Before long she meets Missy, who is a ButchLesbian and or transmasculine (always dressing in male clothing), and they have an affair too.
* QueerRomance: Colette's relationships with Georgie (a bisexual women like her) and Missy (a crossdressing lesbian or trans masculine person) are major themes of the film.

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I don't think this counts as they're French (although Translation Convention is in effect), also it's "Toby chien" in the film too. Adding another example as well.


* GratuitousFrench: At some point Colette calls her dog "Tommy ''chien''". ''Chien'' is French for dog, but nobody would say that. Colette, however, really did, only it was "Toby ''chien''".


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* GratuitousFrench: At some point Colette calls her dog "Tommy ''chien''". ''Chien'' is French for dog, but nobody would say that. Colette, however, really did, only it was "Toby ''chien''."

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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The implicit homoeroticism between Claudine and other school girls in a major selling point for the books Colette writes, as Willy encourages, saying not only he but many other men will love this. After she's attracted to Georgie, a rich American woman, Willy also accepts this but makes it clear this only applies to women. Her [[DoubleStandard seeing a man]] is ''not'' okay with him.
* GratuitousFrench: At some point Colette calls her dog "Tommy ''chien''". ''Chien'' is French for dog, but nobody would say that. Colette, however, really did, only it was "Toby ''chien''." ''chien''".


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* ImAManICantHelpIt: Willy tries to excuse himself having sex with other women to his wife Colette through pleading male weakness, claiming that men are just naturally weaker in terms of sexual desires than women. Colette doesn't accept this for a moment and leaves him (temporarily).


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* LesYay: {{Invoked}} as Colette writes implied homoeroticism into her ''Claudine'' stories between school girls, which Willy finds [[GirlOnGirlIsHot immediately appealing, and assures her other men who read the books will too]].


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* QueerEstablishingMoment: After they meet a couple, Colette admits to Willy she found the woman and not the man desirable. He's intrigued, and it's revealed American woman Georgie is also attracted to women. Willy encourages them to have an affair (they do). Before long she meets Missy, who is a ButchLesbian and or transmasculine (always dressing in male clothing), and they have an affair too.

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