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domino75 | yesterday
Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel in original French) is a 2009 French cinema film directed by Anne Fontaine, about the life of the famed French fashion designer Coco Chanel. The film was released in April, 2009 in France and went on to international release. To date it has grossed more than $28 million. The film is currently in limited release by Sony Pictures Classics in the United
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A Shaded View on Fashion (Free subscription) | yesterday
Represented there : Alfredo Piola, Anne Fontaine, Antoine + Manuel, Arnaud Riviere, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Bowing Club, Cecile Nogues, Chevalier-Masson, Colin Johnco, Delphine Huguet, Delphine Zampetti, Fabrics Interseason, Fanny Maugey, Fr66, Francois Xavier Courreges, Inaki Aizpitarte, Jos Auzende, Mundi...
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KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
As a young girl, Gillain had an irresistible buoyancy and self-confidence. This quality has given way in recent years to reveal something deeper, a watchfulness and a vulnerability underlying the surface gaiety. This has revealed a woman with a lot more doubt, gentleness and complexity than people ever realized — precisely the qualities that director Anne Fontaine needed for the role...
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Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
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...
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The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Coco Avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) Directed by Anne Fontaine A Warner Bros./France 2 et al. Co-Production, 2009 (in French) Amelia Directed by Mira Nair Fox Searchlight/Avalon Pictures, 2009 In the 1930s, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883-1971) and Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)—both talented, daring, ambitious, and sexually unconventional—helped crystallize the 20th...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
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.In Anne Fontaine's admiring but not uncritical "Coco Before Chanel," Tautou plays an iconic clothing designer who was also a kind of philosopher. She wanted to liberate women...
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Riverfront Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Anne Fontaine's Coco Before Chanel gives us Belle Époque Coco, opening in 1893 with a grim scene of the ten-year-old waif and her sister unceremoniously dumped at an orphanage, and ending around World War I, a few years before the Chanel empire is launched. Jan Kounen's moldy Coc...