Coco Before Chanel stars Audrey Tautou as Coco Chanel directed by Anne
Fontaine, and Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky stars Anna Mougalis as
Coco Chanel directed by Jan Kounen are French films about the early life
of famed French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Coco Before Chanel (July 31, 2009)
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos
Audrey
Tautou (The Da Vinci Code) plays the legendary "Coco" Chanel in an
enthralling exploration of her early life before she rose to worldwide
fame as the most celebrated fashion designer of the 20th Century. We
meet the young Gabrielle Chanel, illegitimate daughter of a traveling
salesman who learns to sew in a Catholic orphanage before following her
singing ambitions lead her to a cabaret club. It is here where Chanel
earns the nickname Coco and also where she catches the eye of several
high society gentlemen who would ignite her passion and become
instrumental in the development of her remarkable career. From director
Anne Fontaine Coco Before Chanel is the fascinating untold story of how
one woman rose from humble beginnings to become one of coutures most
important icons.
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky (June 11, 2010)
Director: Jan Kounen
Cast: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen, Yelena Morozova
Paris
1913, Coco Chanel is devoted to her work and madly in love with the
handsome and very wealthy Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel. At the Theatre des
Champs-Élysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his Rite of Spring. Coco
attends the premiere and is mesmerized. But the revolutionary work is
too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. A
near-riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable. 7 years later. Now rich,
respected and successful, Coco is devastated by Boy Capel’s death. She
meets Stravinsky again - now a penniless refugee living in exile in
Paris after the Russian Revolution, The attraction between them is
immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her new villa
in Garches, so that he will be able to work, and he moves in straight
away, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate,
intense love affair between two creative giants begins.
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