Coco Before Chanel
Ends Thu, Nov 12!
Mon, Nov 9—Thu, Nov 12 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:20pm
Directed by Anne Fontaine
With Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain
(PG-13), 110min
"Tautou not only resembles Chanel, she inhabits the role completely, using flashing eyes and a relentless intelligence to convey the unbending strength of a woman determined to make something of her life in a time and place when that was far from the norm." —LA Times
Coco Before Chanel is the story of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who began her life as headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey became the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. The film portrays the formative years of Chanel's life, the years of Chanel spent discovering and inventing herself.
Synopsis courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
LA Times on Coco Before Chanel
"'I know how to express the present,' Chanel liked to say, and showing us just how that expression took form and shape is the accomplishment of this satisfying film." More
San Francisco Chronicle on Coco Before Chanel
"Coco Before Chanel is essentially the portrait of an artist, and the film takes care to show the development of Chanel's design vision." More
Time Out on Coco Before Chanel
"Fittingly, Coco presents Chanel herself as a bundle of contradictions: Sensual but stubbornly self-sufficient... a thrillingly atypical, genuinely complicated heroine." More