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Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
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...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
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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Time (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Audrey Tatou stars as the 20th century's most influential designer. But charming as she is, she doesn't quite manage to channel Chanel
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Time (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Audrey Tatou stars as the 20th century's most influential designer. But charming as she is, she doesn't quite manage to channel Chanel
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Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
The Da Vinci Code star discusses her role as legendary French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
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2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Emmanuelle Devos plays a loving working-class wife and mother in a small city in 1930s France who begins to suspect that something's not quite right in her marriage. Directed by Frederic Fonteyne, "Gilles' Wife" initially seems about as undramatic as can be. It's a very slow, very deliberate, very beautiful accumulation of sensory details and psychological...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Film Reviews: Bruno Podalydes returns to his hometown of Versailles and the present for the star-studded letdown "Park Benches."
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Film Reviews: Bruno Podalydes returns to his hometown of Versailles and the present for the star-studded letdown "Park Benches."
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Film Reviews: Standard TV cop stuff overripe with homophobic subtexts pretty much sums up "Partners."
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Jeremy's Thought Balloons (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Cast Audrey Tautou Alessandro Nivola Benoît Poelvoorde Marie Gillain Emmanuelle Devos Screenwriter Anne Fontaine Director Anne Fontaine Running Time 110 minutes The story of how tragic ‘orphan’ Gabrielle Chanel (Tautou), abandoned by her father on the death of her mother, worked her way up through society’s strata to become ‘Coco’, the fashion world’s most...
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Out 1 (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
The 47th Annual New York Film Festival Returns to the Fully Renovated Alice Tully Hall September 25 - October 11, 2009 The 47th edition of the New York Film Festival will open with the U.S. premiere of Alain Resnais's Wild Grass (Les herbes folles) and close with Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces. This year's Centerpiece will be Lee Daniels' Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire. In...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
The lineup for next month's New York Film Festival was unveiled today, and there's pretty much something to suit all preferences. The highlights: the opening-night premiere of Alan Resnais's Wild Grass , Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime , Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or–winning White Ribbon , a cleaned-up print of The Wizard of Oz , and — rejoice, castration fans! — Lars von Trier's...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
If you liked , then you’ll love, well, energetically acted films about French chanteuses featuring authentic Gallic atmosphere. But there’s certainly no guarantee you’ll enjoy this torpid, directionless plod through the early life of Coco Chanel.
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