Coco Before Chanel

Striking cinematography highlights this slightly too long, too narrowly focused, factually inspired French film about the early years of legendary, tomboyish, audacious, never-married French designer Gabrielle ‘Coco' Chanel (Audrey Tautou), who was left at an orphanage with her younger sister (Marie Gillian) by their father in 1893, as she struggles to realize her dreams by becoming a mistress to racehorse-loving Étienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde), who beds women indiscriminately, and by falling for Englishman Arthur 'Boy' Capel (Alessandro Nivola) who ultimately helps to finance her millinery and clothing design business.
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