Shirley MacLaine as Old Coco Chanel; Malcolm McDowell as Marc Bouchier; Valeria Cavalli as Elisabeth Ducrot; Anny Duperey as Madame Desboutins; Carla Cassola as Madre Superiora; Cosimo Fusco as Albert; Olivier Sitruk as Boy Capel; Barbora Bobulova as Young Coco Chanel; Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Paul Poiret; Brigitte Boucher as Madame de Rochefort; Marine Delterme as Emilienne d'Alencon; Vincent Nemeth as Jacques Doucet; Valentina Carnelutti as Sister therese; Sagamore St�venin as Etienne Balsan; Robert Dawson as Lord Fry
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Cinematography
Fabrizio LUCCI
Language
English
Plot
Italian-French-British TV film targeting the US audience, about the fashion icon Coco Chanel. The film begins with the fashion goddess (deftly played by Shirley MacLaine) in her twilight years, steeped in wealth and fame, still issuing game-changing designs and collections. From here the biopic looks backwards to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.