Romantic, beautiful and moving... Coco Chanel comes alive with Tautou's remarkable portrayal of a legend. The film started out strong but tapered off to a weak ending, which was a pity. Overall, an enjoyable movie worth watching.
a nice insight into the life of a stubborn simplicity-obsessed fashionista. good performances from all, especially the brit "gentleman"
Audrey Tautou did a great job portraying one of the most important women of the past decade. But the really amazing features in this film are more like technical. The music is great, cinematography is beautiful and well, the costumes are freaking amazing! I hope it will take at l...( read more)
This is a Love Story. The Love of and for the two men in her life at that time, and Her love of simplicity! The story that shows how Mlle. detested fussy styles, and designed with elegant and simple lines to eschew, as much as possible complicated and overly worked style of la...( read more)
Ya had to get past the subtitles. I have read subtitles before but there was something about these... Anyway, the story was alright but I felt like something was missing as I watched it. I don't remembe "Boy" asking her to marry her although someone else did so I don't know wh...( read more)
Esta es la historia de Coco Chanel, desde sus días en el orfanato, hasta convertirse en una de las diseñadoras mas importantes de la historia.
Me pareció que esta increíblemente bien contada y las secuencias están bien logradas.
Me sorprendió la actitud de Chanel hacia la socieda...( read more)
I love Coco Chanel and I love Audrey Tautou, so this combination was bound to be pure bliss, and it was. She plays the part perfectly. However, I do share the opinion of many others, the film is too focused on Coco's love life, whereas her relationships with men is the least inte...( read more)
Is it just me, or does anyone else thinking this film is heavily sponsored (even suggested by) Chanel? I am certainly not the first to have noticed the strong links between the French movie industry and the fashion industry.
The movie never ventures beyond the shallows. It skims...( read more)
I really enjoy the film, but expect more. The criativity of Chanel for fashion lost space for romance. I want to see more about fashion, and after she get famous.
I love Audrey Tautou! Lynn and I learned a few things....better mistress than wife; love hurts and (some) men cheat.
Great movie...very interesting woman from historic point of view, from the fashion point of view. Takes us back to the fashions essential purposes: simplicity, elegance and femininity
Audrey Tautou, with her sparkling eyes and winning smile, established herself as one of our most beloved screen actresses in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amelie". Oddly enough, perhaps her least glamorous role is that of a fashion designer.
Coco Chanel is still one of the most signific...( read more)
Audrey Tautou's acting is near perfection. I found a bit of myself in the person of Coco Chanel. It's too bad that nowadays Chanel is not what it used to be. She dared to be different and do her own thing but it seems that now Chanel is a brand for fashion followers only. Oh well...( read more)
If their lives were that similar, I don´t know, but either bieng Chanel or Piaf, the movie is (almost) the same. Like Kyle Smith says (check critic review below), Anne Fontaine´s movie " begs to be compared to 'La Vie en Rose' ".
As happened to "La Vie en Rose", "Coco avant C...( read more)
No va mas allá de ser una biografía edulcorada, es decir, menos enfocada en apegarse a la realidad que a contar una historia romántica sobre las visicitudes de una joven y humilde joven que se convierte en la famosa diseñadora. Sin embargo tiene mejor calidad que una tipica biopi...( read more)
The film is telling nothing. However u can extract an idea that Life has no meaning without love. I accept that.
Great acting by Audrey. Nice attention to detail, historically very true.
Enjoyable and interesting. Told in a straightforward style without a lot of melodrama or moralizing.
I liked this movie, probably more than I should have, because of Audrey Tautou. I admire Coco's persistence. She never backs down, while completely fearful at the same time...inspiring woman who knows how to use her resources well. Audrey conveys a lot through expression and sile...( read more)
Lo que me atrajo a "Coco Before Chanel" fue Audrey Tautou. En si, no estoy muy impresionado con el legado de Chanel en el mundo de la moda (realmente nunca me ha interesado mucho el mundo de la moda, para ser exactos). El filme no es particularmente bueno porque resulta ser un bi...( read more)
Un vistazo a los comienzos de quien sería luego un ícono de la moda por excelencia. Me pareció muy interesante por el hecho de que conocía poco de sus orígenes, y me llamaron la atención los puntos en común con la historia de Édith Piaf. Me gustó mucho la interpretación de Tautou...( read more)
Rather slow and bland. Btw the life of Coco was so similar to that of Edith Piaf! How come famous women always had such miserable lives?
More a snapshot of a moment than conventional biography, and while less complex than it might want to be, still a quietly thoughtful look at one of the 20th century?s most influential characters. Tautou is just terrific, and to recall an actress who could so dominate your memory ...( read more)
I liked that it focused more on coco's life pre-fashion days instead of what everyone was expecting. The fashion bits in the movie were decadent, Tautou's performance was splendid in bringing out coco's charm and the struggles she faced- be they of the heart or of the world.
Very good movie and story!! But I would like to see Coco smiling a bit more. It's worth to see.
a bit diappointed that this film features mainly on coco's love life between 2 men instead of more on the fashion side. But then, its "coco BEFORE chanel" so do not expect much. Decent acting overall though.
Audrey Tautou is bewitching as Coco as a woman so very much ahead of her time.The look and feel of the film is mesmerising.
Great cinematography, story nice, started well, went on to middle well, then ....it ended:)
beautiful. a real masterpiece about a strong women. sawthe film today in romania!
I love Chanel NO.5 & NO.19. The perfumes like the CoCo Chanel lady. Secret smell like she in the movies. Every things she smell first.
I like perfumes, I like the nature perfumes with lover.
When? What's I choes?
All we need know how and why?
From the heart.
We do the things we d...( read more)
Respectable film, it is a bit overlong but the production is good as are the performances. The scenes with Shirley MacLaine come off best. Nice period detail, good cinematography.
