Title | Coco Avant Chanel before |
Year | 2009 |
Time | 105 mins |
Genre | Biography; Drama; Foreign |
Director | Anne Fontaine |
Edition | |
Format | DVD |
Actor | Audrey Tautou as Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel; Beno�t Poelvoorde as �tienne Balsan; Alessandro Nivola as Arthur 'Boy' Capel; Marie Gillain as Adrienne Chanel; Emmanuelle Devos as Emilienne d'Alen�on; R�gis Royer as Alec, le jockey; Etienne Bartholomeus as Ma�tre d'h�tel Balsan; Yan Duffas as Maurice de Nexon; Fabien B�har as Patron boutique; Roch Leibovici as Jean, le palefrenier; Jean-Yves Chatelais as Directeur beuglant; Pierre Diot as Acteur th��tre; Vincent Nemeth as Gros homme th��tre; Bruno Abraham-Kremer as Tailleur Deauville; Lisa Cohen as Gabrielle Chanel, 10 ans |
Rating | PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) |
Cinematography | Christophe Beaucarne |
Language | French |
Plot | Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing in |
Producer | Carole Scotta; Caroline Benjo |
Writer | Anne Fontaine; Edmonde Charles-Roux |
Subtitles | Danish |