Nouvelle Chance (Import French Only Version) REGION 2 PAL Acteurs : Andy Gillet, Danielle Darrieux, Arielle Dombasle Director: Anne Fontaine
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domino75 | 11/09/2009
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
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Take a look at a clip and poster for new Atom Egoyan’s movie “Chloe” premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. This is actually remake of the French 2004 thriller “Nathalie…” directed by Anne Fontaine starring Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Beart. Egoyan’s “Chloe” stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and...
The Fashion Economist (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Here's another tip to ease your Christmas shopping budget. Moxtex, fashion agent of brands like Anne Fontaine, Friis Company and Stella Forest keeps its stockroom open with a with a wide selection of clothing and accessories. Prices are presumingly nice, I only wish they would extend their opening hours a bit. 11-5 conflict my work hours. Well, if you have the chance, check it out! When:...
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
“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 – [...]
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...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... with Coco Before Chanel and what was the appeal of playing Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel? Alessandro Nivola: Anne Fontaine had seen me playing Englishmen in various other films and inquired whether I could speak French. I lied and said I could. I loved the script when I read it. I had no idea how dramatic Chanel’s life was. I knew nothing about Chanel before making the movie except that my wife...
Filmshaft.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. Directed by Anne Fontaine , Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) stars the fantastic Audrey Tautou as Coco, along with a collection of dreadful designs featured as the early “originals” created by the famed designer as we are taken on a trip through the turbulent and hard-fought life of one of...
A Shaded View on Fashion (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... images, mature themes, language. 1 hour, 47 minutes. By Roger Moore."Coco Before Chanel" **In Anne Fontaine's admiring but not uncritical "Coco Before Chanel," Audrey Tautou plays the iconic clothing designer who was also a kind of philosopher. She used couture to liberate herself and her customers. In the process, she designs an adventurous life for herself. The film, although sumptuously...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
