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Oct 29, 2009joseph rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Good – Coco Chanel (2008) 139 min. This is an interesting made-for-television depiction of legendary fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. The film was released on Lifetime Television. The wonderful Shirley MacLaine plays the elder Coco while Barbora Bobulova plays the younger. Though the acting may at times seem wooden and the choice to play Coco’s love of her life (Boy Capel played by Olivier Sitruk) may not have been my first choice, the film does educate in a most enjoyable way taking Coco from her mother’s death to her resurgence as a fashion icon later in life. The one thing that struck me in the life of Chanel was that she opened up her heart to fashion but kept it closed to committing to serious relationships because of past hurts. This film will reveal, among loads of other trivia, Coco’s first fashion apparel and how Chanel No. 5 came to be. I hope that OPL orders the French film that was released in 2009 titled “Coco Avant Chanel” with Audrey Toutou playing Chanel.