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Legendary Fashion Icon Coco Chanel’s Life in Theatres

Life story of Gabrielle Chanel, known as the fashion icon Coco Chanel is filmed. A tasteful story of a poor girl who transformed into a legendary fashion designer, a biopic movie with some romance but more than that, a real success story of a modern woman.

The $26 million budgeted Warner Bros movie ‘Coco avant Chanel’ (Coco Before Chanel), starring Audrey Tautou, is directed by Anne Fontaine who is also one of the screenwriters of the movie. This year, there are three movie projects on Coco Chanel but this one really deserves admiration with magnificent performance of Audrey Tautou. Coco avant Chanel of Anne Fontaine focuses on the rise of Gabrielle Chanel to fame while another Chanel movie of Kounen is about her relationship with Stravinsky.

Coco Avant Chanel

DETAILS:

GENRE: Biography, drama

DIRECTOR: Anne Fontaine

CAST: Audrey Tautou

Alessandro Nivola

Marie Gillain

Benoît Poelvoorde

Emmanuelle Devos

Fabien Béhar

Pierre Diot

RUNTIME: 105 min

SYNOPSIS:

Gabrielle Chanel born in France in 1883. She was 12 years old when her mother died. She was raised in a convent orphanage as her father abondened her after her mother’s death. However, her fortune dramatically changed and she became a legendary fashion icon. Her name ‘Coco’ comes from a song as she also tried singing as a cabaret entertainer at nights while she was trying to make a living in a tailor’s shop. Her life changed after she met a powerful and rich man Etienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde) and became his mistress. While women of Parisian high society were dressed in corsets and laces, she was trying a new way by adapting her lover’s clothes for her own wardrope. This was the beginning of her way to a fashion reform that liberated and helped women to acquire a place in men’s world. The movie goes on with her next love affair with a British industrialist Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel (Alessandro Nivola) whose tragic death had a dramatic impact on Coco Chanel.

The movie Coco avant Chanel tells us the story of this modern woman until her late 20’s, the beginning of the fashion reform Coco Chanel achieved in history. The main focus of this Chanel movie is on the evolution of a young woman and how she built a success story, rather than fashion, clothes and accessories. It would have been difficult to emphasis this point if her whole life story was told in the movie.

It is so obvious that Audrey Taotou loved her role as her performance is great. She says, “The portrayal was not in the costume, not in the superficial side of the character, but in my inner self.” Audrey Tautou is also coming as the new face of Chanel No 5 with an ad showing her in Oriental Express journey from France to Istanbul.

Everybody knows the name Coco Chanel and this name is associated with fame, wealth, fashion. Watching the movie Coco Before Chanel, we see the rise of this legendary fashion designer who had great impact on the society she lived in. It is not an easy job to tell such a unique woman’s life perfectly. But both the director Anne Fontaine and the star Audrey Tautou and the cast did a good job. This one looks like the best Coco Chanel movie. Although some chronology of the events were changed in the movie, they paid attention to stick to the true biography of Coco Chanel. It is an insightful script and a good performance. Also re-creation of costumes by another fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld adds more value and beauty to the movie. This biopic movie is not for those who look for some action but it is worth watching if you are interested in portrayal of a strong, legendary character, dram and romance, struggle and success, love and heartbreak. Chanel No 5 fans who watch this movie will remember this movie everytime they smell it.

Watch the trailer of Coco avant Chanel!