COCO BEFORE CHANEL
| 2008 – 105′ – Biopic, Drama.
Written by: Anne Fontaine, Camille Fontaine, Christopher Hampton, Jacques Fieschi.
Directed by: Anne Fontaine.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos, Fabien Behar, Yan Dufas, Marie Parouty.
In French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |
Young Coco Chanel (Audrey Tautou) works as a seamstress by day and a cabaret entertainer by night, then she meets a wealthy heir (Benoît Poelvoorde) and becomes his lover and fashion consultant. Tired of the flowery hats, tight corsets and yards of lace that define women’s fashion, Coco uses her lover’s clothing as a starting point to distill an elegant and sophisticated line of women’s clothing that propels her to the top of Parisian haute couture.