Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.
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Audrey Tautou
Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel
Benoît Poelvoorde
Étienne Balsan
Alessandro Nivola
Arthur 'Boy' Capel
Marie Gillain
Adrienne Chanel
Emmanuelle Devos
Émilienne d'Alençon
Régis Royer
Alec, Jockey
Étienne Bartholomeus
Balsan Butler
Yan Duffas
Maurice de Nexon
Fabien Béhar
Shop Boss
Roch Leibovici
Jean, Groom
Director
Anne Fontaine
Screenplay
Anne Fontaine
Tagline
"Before she was France's famous mademoiselle…"
Status
Released
Original Language
FR
Production
Haut et Court, Ciné-@, France 2 Cinéma, SCOPE Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment France
CinemaSerf
April 10, 2024
Audrey Tautou is actually quite impressive here as the legendary French designer, but the rest of this rather blandly photographed melodrama is really more about her love life than her career. She's born Gabrielle and having left the orphanage in which she was abandoned with sister Adrienne (Marie Gillain), takes a job as a seamstress and supplements that with some cabaret work. Clearly she has sk...
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