Coco Before Chanel

Coco Before Chanel original title Coco avant Chanel is a 2009 French film about the early life of famed French fashion designer Coco Chanel. French actress Audrey Tautou stars as Chanel. Coco avant Chanel was directed and cowritten by actor turned director Anne Fontaine.

Several years after leaving the orphanage where her father abandoned her, a young Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She is 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 the charismatic Baron Balsan Belgian actor Benot Poelvoorde gives her an entry into French high society, and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats.Coco falls in love with English businessman Arthur Capel American Alessandro Nivola, who learnt French especially for the film, unaware that he is betrothed to a woman in England. Capel believes in Cocos talent making hats and her refusal to follow the whims of fashion as he says to Coco, Theres no one else like you. As Cocos business flourishes and life is going well, Capel dies in a car accident she is devastated. However, Coco still has the business that Capel helped her start as a reminder of their love. ........

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