‘
Coco Before Chanel‘ (‘
Coco Avant Chanel‘), biopic of celebrated fashion designer
Coco Chanel is based on book by
Edmonde Charles-Roux.
Audrey Tautou stars in film as Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco, from director and co-writer
Anne Fontaine.
Tautou is expected to star in film about Chanel before she became famous.
In the other Coco biopic french actress
Marina Hands has been cast by director
William Friedkin as fashion figure Coco Chanel in his forthcoming ‘
Coco and Igor‘ about the tempestuous affair between Chanel and composer
Igor Stravinsky.
His film takes place in 1913, at the time that Stravinsky's ballet, “The Rite of Spring” opened as a catastrophic failure and Chanel's perfume, Chanel No. 5, had become an enormous success.
I wonder if they're going to include her love affair with a nazi spy
Hans Gunther von Dincklage. Chanel's affair during World War II resulted in some years of diminished popularity and an exile of sorts to Switzerland.
Chanel also was portrayed by
Katharine Hepburn in the 1969 a Broadway musical ‘Coco'.
