
Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel Coco's radical ideas. She wants to democratize women's fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coc... (Full plot summary below)
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Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel Coco's radical ideas. She wants to democratize women's fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable. Paris 1920, Coco is newly wealthy and successful but grief-stricken after Boy's death in a car crash. Igor, following the Russian Revolution is now a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris. Coco is introduced to Igor by Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes. The attraction between them is instant and electric. Coco invites Igor along with his wife - now sick with consumption - together with his four children and a menagerie of birds to stay at her new villa, Bel Respiro, in Garches.
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| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Corey HallA gloriously shot but elegantly empty chamber piece |
| Tulsa WorldMichael SmithThis thin slice of so-called history is both so narrow in focus and out of focus that even the most devoted fans are likely to be disappointed. |
| Cinema AutopsyThomas CaldwellThe astonishing creation of mood and command over film style on display in Chanel Coco & Igor Stravinsky make it so much more than yet another biopic. |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasVisually and thematically compelling ... only marred by the languid pacing, but it's always better whenever Mikkelsen and Mouglalis are on screen together. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThe movie Kounen and his co-writers, Carlo de Bounty and Chris Greenhalgh, have made of Greenhalgh's novel is based on the rumor of an affair. As such, it's faintly soapy. But Kounen heightens the speculative circumstances by treating them like a dream. |
| ScotsmanAlistair HarknessRefuses to dumb down its subjects for the sake of easy accessibility (the actors are truthful rather than likeable). |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeThis French film's beginning is as brilliant as anything I've seen all year; unfortunately, most of the rest of the movie never lives up to that. |
| Movie TalkJason BestStravinsky refuses to acknowledge [Chanel] as his artistic equal: 'You are not an artist, you are a shopkeeper' ... After this put-down, the couple's romance fizzles out ... |
| MovieTime, ABC Radio NationalJulie RiggIt plays as handsomely dressed and decorated soft porn reverie: a kind of arty episode of The Bold and the Beautiful, without television's tabloid briskness. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyCoco Chanel is presented as a heartless home wrecker in director Jan Kounen's pointless biopic drama... |