Coco Before Chanel
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- Release Date
- April 22, 2009
- Director
- Anne Fontaine
- Cast
- Audrey Tautou , Benoît Poelvoorde , Alessandro Nivola , Marie Gillain , Emmanuelle Devos , Régis Royer
- Runtime
- 105
- Main Genre
- Biography
- Writers
- Edmonde Charles-Roux , Anne Fontaine , Camille Fontaine
- Tagline
- Before she was France's famous mademoiselle...
Summary
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 "Coco" 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.
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