Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola
A little girl who is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of France, who waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come for her...
A cabaret performer with a weak voice who ...( read more
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Audrey Tautou, with her sparkling eyes and winning smile, established herself as one of our most beloved screen actresses in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amelie". Oddly enough, perhaps her least glamorous role is that of a fashion designer.
Coco Chanel is still one of the most signific...( read more)
Could have been Audrey's La Vie En Rose oscar winner, instead is tedious and tepid. i wanted to see Coco as Channel with her wartime Nazi scandal and all her glamour.
Great movie...very interesting woman from historic point of view, from the fashion point of view. Takes us back to the fashions essential purposes: simplicity, elegance and femininity
Audrey Tautou's acting is near perfection. I found a bit of myself in the person of Coco Chanel. It's too bad that nowadays Chanel is not what it used to be. She dared to be different and do her own thing but it seems that now Chanel is a brand for fashion followers only. Oh well...( read more)
If their lives were that similar, I don´t know, but either bieng Chanel or Piaf, the movie is (almost) the same. Like Kyle Smith says (check critic review below), Anne Fontaine´s movie " begs to be compared to 'La Vie en Rose' ".
As happened to "La Vie en Rose", "Coco avant C...( read more)
No va mas allá de ser una biografía edulcorada, es decir, menos enfocada en apegarse a la realidad que a contar una historia romántica sobre las visicitudes de una joven y humilde joven que se convierte en la famosa diseñadora. Sin embargo tiene mejor calidad que una tipica biopi...( read more)
The film is telling nothing. However u can extract an idea that Life has no meaning without love. I accept that.
Great acting by Audrey. Nice attention to detail, historically very true.
The film, understandably, leaves you wanting more about the rest of the designer's life, but Coco Before Chanel is wisely focused on those years in which she became herself. full review
The film loses some of its fascination when Coco is unmistakably launched on her career path. But that's when the story ends; this is titled Coco Before Chanel for a reason. full review
Coco Chanel is not the most lovable of heroines, but it's a strength of the film that director Anne Fontaine allows Tautou to make Coco as cold and ungiving as she does. full review
A flat, airless tale of a sullen hooker who lucked out. full review
It's a special pleasure to watch this vibrant Coco taking in the world around her and turning it to her use, in her fashion. full review
The blossoming of her ambition, as much as her love life, drives the story forward, and turns Coco Before Chanel into a costume drama worthy of the name. full review
The film, while scaled-down, is quite beautifully woven, like a classic Chanel tweed. full review
Fontaine dramatizes Coco's struggles respectfully if mundanely, crafting believable period detail for her procession of key-life-moment scenes, all of which employ serviceable but far from groundbreak... full review
I missed the desperation that goaded the real Coco--not just the sulks that pass like rain showers across Tautou's prettiness but that brisk contempt for existing conditions which led Chanel, like any... full review
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"Coco avant Chanel" Official Trailer
COCO AVANT CHANEL Film Clip - "Arriving"
COCO AVANT CHANEL Film Clip - "Coco and Boy"
COCO AVANT CHANEL Film Clip - "In Love"
COCO AVANT CHANEL Film Clip - "Observing"
COCO AVANT CHANEL Film Clip - "Sewing"
COCO AVANT CHANEL Film Clip - "The Sea"
COCO AVANT CHANEL Film Clip - "Coco Chanel"
COCO AVANT CHANEL Film Clip - "Paris"
