Coco Before Chanel |  | Director: Anne Fontaine
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: French (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD33160D
UPC: 043396331600
EAN: 0043396331600
ASIN: B002LE8MGW
Theatrical Release Date: September 25, 2009
Release Date: February 16, 2010
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Product Description
THE STORY OF COCO CHANEL'S RISE FROM OBSCURE BEGINNINGS TO THE HEIGHTS OF THE FASHION WORLD.
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Before she became Coco, the world-famous fashion designer, Gabrielle Chanel (Audrey Tautou in a fiercely determined performance) struggled to make ends meet. After her mother's death, her father deposited her and her sister, Adrienne (Marie Gillain), at an orphanage, where they learned to sew (and where Chanel developed a taste for monochromatic ensembles). They went on to become cabaret singers, but when Adrienne runs off with a wealthy suitor, the newly christened Coco must go it alone until she meets gentleman farmer Étienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde). She lives comfortably at his chateau, but he refuses to take her out in public, so she puts her skills as a seamstress to good use and designs outfits for his lady friends, like Emilienne (Emmanuelle Devos), an actress. Chanel's situation improves further when British investor Arthur "Boy" Capel (Alessandro Nivola with an impeccable French accent) enters the scene. Her working-class origins present less of a problem with Capel, though the couple will have other issues with which to contend. In the meantime, he gives her the money to open her own Parisian studio, and the film ends with the tweed suit-clad Chanel of the popular imagination. Until that time, writer-director Anne Fontaine (The Girl from Monaco) presents a very different character, a woman who wasn't worldly or sophisticated, but who saw no reason why fashion--or "style," as she called it--should be complicated or uncomfortable. In transforming herself, Coco Chanel transformed an entire industry and, arguably, an entire gender. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Coco Chanel's early life June 27, 2010
Reader (Boca Raton, FL)
Gabrielle Coco Channel with her personallity, fashion designs and perfume line is an icon for fashion industry. I have read many books about her and she definitely was fascinating and determined woman. This film is focusing on her early life, from the time she and her sister were dropped off at the orphanage until the time when she starter fer haute couture business in Paris. However, I find film to be showing her life as a romantic adventure and I firmly believe that it was anything but.
Audrey Tautou gives wonderful performance of a woman who was both strong and fragile. Coco was determined to separate herself from the crowd she is surrounded with. After all, her involvement with rich Parisian military officer has proved to her that she did not belong to the social classes of the higher standing and she had to pave her own way to financial independence. Although film focuses on her petite constitution and propensity to wear men's clothing - it does not address the fact that Coco earned her fame after WWI when she started sawing women's clothing from untraditional heavy materials such as wool, boucle and others.
The end of film is absolutely fascinating - the run show of her finest feminine dresses and hats is breathtaking. Definitely a film worth watching. Fine acting, music and clothes all around.
 Terrible Subtitles June 14, 2010
B. McDonough
Unless you are fluent in French, this DVD is a total waste of money. The subtitles are nothing short of horrendous. Most of the time there are none and when one suddently appears it adds nothing to the storyline. I missed huge portions of the plot as a result.
Great classic June 8, 2010
C. McCleary (Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA)
Love this film. Just a little disappointed with the lack of detail in the ending.
Otherwise, excellent film, well worth watching 2 or 3 times over.
My first time with subtitles and I liked it! May 23, 2010
V. Kleinman (Henderson, Nevada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wasn't sure if I could hang with subtitles -- In fact, I panicked thinking that there was no way I was going to enjoy this movie. I have to say that by the end, I loved it -- I'm glad I didn't turn it off!
My first time with subtitles and I liked it! May 23, 2010
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wasn't sure if I could hang with subtitles -- In fact, I panicked thinking that there was no way I was going to enjoy this movie. I have to say that by the end, I loved it -- I'm glad I didn't turn it off!
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