Coco Before Chanel film review - Audrey Tautou

Amelie's Audrey Tautou wears pearls and LBD to play the doyenne of style

31 July 2009

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Cert: 12A, 110mins

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola

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Amelie star Tautou is at her best in this portrait of the French fashion icon’s early years.

Charting her rise from lowly seamstress and cabaret entertainer to haute couture sensation, it presents Chanel as a driven, rather cold woman not afraid to use wealthy men (randy playboy Poelvoorde and English businessman Nivola) to get ahead.

The end result is like La Vie en Rose with posh frocks ­instead of songs and minus a heroine we can root for.

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