La naissance du jour (1980), A very rare television film based on Colette’s quasi-autobiographical La Naissance du jour , one of her greatest works: a serene, sometimes joyous meditation in which the novelist puzzles through the state in which she found herself, an older woman, traduced and misused in love, fearing that she would never be wanted again. Instead of obsessing on loss, she insists, one must accept it; at a certain age one must recognize the limits of human relationships and transfer one’s attentions to nature.