Chanel’s Stunning On the Big Screen
Coco Chanel is total legend, as we all love Chanel, Coco Chanel’s life is something we’re all curious about. As long as we love gossip, we sincerely want to what kind of life Miss Chanel has lived and what exactly she did to achieve such an achievement. I know, that’s really gossip, but definitely not evil gossip, we literally warship this woman!
Lucky for us, it looks like that many more thinks alike, and due to that, two movies chronicling the life of Gabrielle Chanel were slated for release in 2009.
One, Audrey Tautou’s Coco Avant Chanel, opened here last September; it followed Coco from the orphanage to the atelier.
The other, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, stars Anna Mouglalis as the designer and it’s opened almost everywhere in the world except the United States. It finally hits theatres in New York June 11th, but we went to a screening last night and it’s very, very slow (and long).
Despite the exaggerated scenes and sweeping music, it’s a feast for the eyes—like Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette without the pink. Coco’s country house is as impeccably black and white as a tweed suit, her pearls are draped perfectly on top of every single outfit and her atelier is bright, clean and bursting with energy (or as much energy as she’d allow). Chanel No.5 came to life during Chanel’s affair with Stravinsky, and she travels to Grasse to meet with the perfumers and wade through rose petals—the only real burst of color in the film.
The clothes, including Coco’s slouchy suits, the Chanel shop girls’ outfits, partygoers’ beaded flapper dresses and the ballet’s feathered headpieces and capes are beautiful.
It may be too long and too slow for the theatre, but it’s the perfect film to play on silent in the background all day long.
Anyway, there’s really something to expect for this movie, but just not the story. I’d really say that I love that Audrey Tautou movie more, how about you?
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Tags: abrielle Chanel, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Tautou, Chanel No.5, Coco Avant Chanel, Coco Chanel, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Marie Antoinette, movie, Sofia Coppola
