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Coco Before Chanel (12A)
- Consumer Advice: Contains moderate sex references
- Run time: 1 hour 50 mins
- Language: French
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 31st July 2009
- Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola
- Directed by: Anne Fontaine
- Distributor: Optimum Releasing
Plot Synopsis
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 sings to an audience of drunken soldiers…
A humble seamstress, who stitches hems at the back of a provincial tailor's shop…
A young, skinny courtesan, to whom protector Etienne Balsan offers a safe haven, amongst the idle and decadent…
A woman in love who knows she will never be anyone’s wife, refusing marriage even to Boy Capel, the man who returned her love…
A rebel who finds the conventions of her time oppressive, and instead dresses in her lovers' clothes…
This is the story of Gabrielle Chanel, who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey becomes the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style.