Dir: Jan Kounen
2009
**
Jan Kounen's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is absolutely dripping in chic and quite rightly so. Any biopic about Coco Chanel should have the same level of style and elegance as she did. That said, the film is generally style over substance. Anna Mouglalis is compelling and appropriately dour as Chanel and Mads Mikkelsen manages to emote a thousand emotions with the tightening of a single facial muscle but there is a lifelessness to the overall film that comes down to the fact that no one really knows anything about the affair and so there isn't that much to say on the matter. The film wanders dangerously into hearsay and seems at a loss most of the time as to what it should be and so just sits there and looks pretty. A subtle critique on the Queen of chic maybe, but more likely a result of a great visual director in need of a better scriptwriter.
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