COMING SOON AT THE BUNGAY FILM CLUB COCO BEFORE CHANEL (Coco Avant Chanel) (12A) Monday 25 January 2010 Director: Anne Fontaine. France 2009. 110 minutes. In French with English subtitles. Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola and Emmanuelle Devos. Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, began life as plain Gabrielle. The story of her ascent from orphanage to couturier is told in...
DVD review: Thanks to its seductive glamour, this classy biopic became the third biggest French hit at the British box-office, after Amelie and Cyrano De Bergerac.
“Chanel invented the 20th century for women.” That was the grand claim made about legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel by Diana Vreeland, editor in chief of Vogue in the 1960s. Coco Before Chanel, French director Anne Fontaine’s lavish biopic, however, goes back to Chanel’s early years to show how, before she invented the century – [...]
My wonderful wife and I had a lovely night last Saturday, when we got to travel down to my old stomping grounds to have a bit of dinner, and a movie. Our first stop was Las Americas Super Mercado and Restaurant on 3rd Street right next to Second Hand Rose Pawn Shop, across the street from the funeral parlor, and west of Lewis from the Warehouse Market. We had some really good Mexican food. I had some...
Follow Audrey Tautou's eyes, those deep dark pools, as they rake across the drape of a fabric or the architecture of a hat with fierce concentration. She's not merely looking, she's observing, thinking intensely.
It’s a good thing that Audrey Tatou is so fabulous in Coco Before Chanel . In fact, everything about director Anne Fontaine’s gorgeous biography of famous fashion icon Coco Chanel is wonderful ... except the script, which is kind of a major flaw. If you’re going to build a story around “who someone was before they were the celebrity they became,” you need to find a more...
Coco Avant Chanel Starring Audrey Tautou, Alessandro Nivola, and Benoît Poelvoorde Directed by Anne Fontaine Rated PG-13 In her performance as Coco Chanel, you can see the wheels turning with Audrey Tautou , the gamine French actress who made such an indelible mark on audiences eight years ago in Amélie . That's not to say you can see her acting. For a recent example, watch Hilary Swank...
At the turn of the 20th century, French women of style were gilded peacocks festooned with jewels, gaudy things cinched so tightly at the waist that they could not breathe, teetering on claw feet.
Directed by Anne Fontaine. With Audrey Tautou, Allessandro Nivola and Benoît Poelvoorde. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. Running time: 1 hour, 45 mins.
Spectacle, a love triangle, heritage settings, bravura acting, witty dialogue, a bittersweet finale: There's something for everyone in Anne Fontaine's "Coco Before Chanel," and with the title providing name recognition to die for, her film appears set to storm multiplexes worldwide.
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