The long weekend threw me off, day-wise, so I will do Movie Monday today! This weeks movie is not an old movie, but it is set in the 1920s, and is about Coco Chanel, so I deem it worthy!
This was my first movie with subtitles, I almost stopped watching it, but I'm glad I stuck it out. Audrey Tautou plays Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. She is so stunning.
At a very young age, Gabrielle Chanel and her sister Adrienne are dropped off at an orphanage by their father with the promise that he will return for them. Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister.
She refuses to follow the popular fashion of corsets and pettycoats. She takes men's clothing and transforms them into something that will fit her tiny frame. She liked clothes to be practical, wearing riding pants while on a horse instead of sitting side saddle for instance.
A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats. When she falls in love with English businessman Arthur Capel further opportunities open up, though life becomes ever more complicated.
I had no idea of how she grew up, where her fashion inspiration came from or that Coco was just a nickname! This movie offered a great look into the lives of one of the world's most important designers. I do wish however, that the movie had focused more on her hat shop and how she got into designing clothes, no so much on the relationships with the men.
Have you seen the movie? What did you think?
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