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This is the story of Gabrielle Chanel (Audrey Tautou, Amélie, The Da Vinci Code), who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey becomes the legendary couturier that embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style.

As a little girl, Gabrielle is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of France, where she waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come for her. A few years later Gabrielle is a humble seamstress by day, stitching hems at the back of a provincial tailor’s shop, whilst by night she is a cabaret performer with a weak voice who sings to an audience of drunken soldiers.

One night she meets middle-aged aristocrat Etienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde, (Entre ses mains/In His Hands, Podium) who offers her a safe haven as a young courtesan amongst the idle and decadent of French society. Reborn as Coco, a rebel who finds the conventions of her time oppressive and instead dresses in her lovers’ clothes, she soon encounters the friends and lovers who will shape her life through triumph and tragedy, and who inspire her ascent to the pinnacle of Fashion legend…

Also starring Alessandro Nivola (Junebug, Jurassic Park III), Emmanuelle Devos (The Beat that My Heart Skipped, Read My Lips) and Marie Gillain (L’Enfer, Female Agents, Le Bossu), Coco Before Chanel is directed by Anne Fontaine (The Girl From Monaco) from a screenplay she co-wrote with her sister Camille and with the collaboration of Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons), Catherine Leterrier created the original costumes, Stephen Jones and Pippa Cleator the fabulous hats, and the production was given the assistance of the Maison CHANEL, who opened their archives and collections.

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As a little girl, Gabrielle is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of France, where she waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come for her. A few years later Gabrielle is a humble seamstress by day, stitching hems at the back of a provincial tailor’s shop, whilst by night she is a cabaret performer with a weak voice who sings to an audience of drunken soldiers. One night she meets middle-aged aristocrat Etienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde, (Entre ses mains/In His Hands, Podium) who offers her a safe haven as a young courtesan amongst the idle and decadent of French society. Reborn as Coco, a rebel who finds the conventions of her time oppressive and instead dresses in her lovers’ clothes, she soon encounters the friends and lovers who will shape her life through triumph and tragedy, and who inspire her ascent to the pinnacle of Fashion legend… Also starring Alessandro Nivola (Junebug, Jurassic Park III), Emmanuelle Devos (The Beat that My Heart Skipped, Read My Lips) and Marie Gillain (L’Enfer, Female Agents, Le Bossu), Coco Before Chanel is directed by Anne Fontaine (The Girl From Monaco) from a screenplay she co-wrote with her sister Camille and with the collaboration of Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons),
Catherine Leterrier created the original costumes, Stephen Jones and Pippa Cleator the fabulous hats, and the production was given the assistance of the Maison CHANEL, who opened their archives and collections.