Coco Before Chanel

Rating: 7

Time: 1:50

Starring: Audrey Tautou

Genre: Romance, Drama

This is the story of Coco Chanel’s life before the French fashion designer becomes famous. She moves from an orphanage to work as a seamstress to nightclub singing. She meets an older well-connected French aristocrat and lives on his estate, where she encounters her eventual lover, a young English businessman. He bankrolls her start as a designer of hats for Parisian upper-crust ladies. The love affair ends in tragedy. This is a good movie, and Audrey Tautou gives a bright performance (French w/ English subtitles).