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IN A FASHION

Today's film was Anne Fontaine's

Coco avant Chanel / Coco Before Chanel (2009)

with Audrey Tautou.

This is a fine film in many ways. The story is, more or less, real. The acting is superb. The settings are beautiful or not. The editing is clever.

As the story unfolds Chanel's fashion sense is developed before her and our eyes. A cloche look on a fishermans hat. A striped shirt on a workman. Here and there we see and are nudged to see her sensibility coming to the fore. In the end, all of these little looks come together in a wonderful fashion show.

Her life story is bitter sweet. Good times and bad.

She is and stays self sufficient in a time when women of ambition would be mistresses or whores. Marriage was a dead end.

Coco finds her own path and becomes Chanel.

Tautou is terrific. And her friend is the wonderful Emmanuelle Devos who we see frequently in many different B roles. The men are very good. Very nice. No bastards here at all.

I liked it very much and would be happy to see it again.

I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films