After seeing this movie you wonder if "before Chanel" was enough of a story. We see Coco rise from abject poverty to being something of a famous hat designer and shop owner, but nothing of her eventual worldwide fame. The photography was beautiful and kudos to the costume and set designs, which reflected their historic time periods well. But Audrey Tautou's beauty was minimized by the fact that she was pouting most of the time. And the warning for smoking is certainly accurate; Coco even smoked when she was fitting dresses on models and cutting out cloth for patterns. Amazingly, she lived to be 87!
Review of Coco Before Chanel
