Coco before Chanel

Coco Chanel intrigues, excites, especially when you're a girl and passionate about fashion. French women were lucky enough last week to be able to watch a biopic on Gabrielle (her real name) Chanel, out in all good cinemas. What I do not recommend, is going with your boyfriend as he will mostly hate the love stories, not be interested in the designing of hats and therefore either fall asleep or get bored to death. You don't want that.
The movie, 'Coco avant Chanel', describing the designer's life, before she started designing is a beautiful movie. Describing life at the end of the 19th Century without any kind of unuseful rustle, as it starts at the very beginning of Chanel's life which was nothing more than a life with no rustle. Growing up in an orphanage is not a girl's dream childhood. It's the story of a little girl who cannot believe her father abandoned her, or how the small Gabrielle, who then grew up to become a sewer in a small French shop during the day while singing for soldiers in need of entertainment at night. Events happening to her made her want to create her own custom-built life, just like she then created her own custom-made clothes.It's the misfit determination of this woman swimming counter-current through life, with no kind of advantage. Just the gift of meeting people that will eventually turn her life into one made of positive events. Audrey Tautou, our French (Amélie) pride gives the designer the solemnity her own life had given her. Her black eyes never hesitate and give the audience quivers and feelings you feel only her can give you. And as Chanel's very own Karl said to French ELLE, 'only she (Audrey Tautou) could have played so perfectly Coco's life'.
With her stubborn caracter, the woman who was once called 'the litlle black taurus' managed to seduce Balsan, a rich gentleman farmer, played by the magnificient Belgian Benoît Poelvoorde. She imposed herself to him at the strength of her composition and it's in the rich man's home that she met her first and some say, her only, great love: Boy Capel, an Englishman who gave her the wings she needed to take off and have the confidence to set up her own design House. Even though she only did it after his accidental death. Coco Chanel had the freedom of intuition and a gifted hand, Anne Fontaine took the liberty to film the woman just like she was in real life: with intensity and no limit.