Coco Before Chanel (2009) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	September 25, 2009 (LA/NY)
On DVD:	February 16, 2010
Genre:	Drama
Director:	Anne Fontaine
Writer:	Anne Fontaine, Camille Fontaine
Cast:	Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos
Studio:	Sony Pictures Classics
Official site:	sonyclassics.com/cocobeforechanel
Running Time:	110 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG-13 for sexual content and smoking

A little girl who is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of France, who waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come for her...

A cabaret performer with a weak voice who sings to an audience of drunken soldiers...

A humble seamstress, who stitches hems at the back of a provincial tailor's shop...

A young, skinny courtesan, to whom protector Etienne Balsan offers a safe haven, amongst the idle and decadent...

A woman...

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Review by Nathan Samdahl (C+)

There are two kinds of films that take a lot for me to really enjoy: period films and biopics. Too often the former are too stodgy and bland, and the latter struggle to pick the right life moments to portray (usually resulting in an inconsistent final product). So I was more than happy to discover that the movie that I was to see - Coco Before Chanel - fell squarely within both genres. Perhaps, though, Coco could enter into the lean group of period biopics that defy the mold and find a unique, fresh way to tell an old story. Unfortunately, it did not.

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