Plot
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel 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. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.
Cast
as Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel
as Étienne Balsan
as Arthur 'Boy' Capel
as Adrienne Chanel
as Émilienne d'Alençon
as Alec, Jockey
as Balsan Butler
as Maurice de Nexon
as Shop Boss
as Jean, Groom
Gallery
Reviews
Audrey Tautou is actually quite impressive here as the legendary French designer, but the rest of this rather blandly photographed melodrama is really more about her love life than her career. She's born Gabrielle and having left the orphanage in which she was abandoned with sister Adrienne (Marie Gillain), takes a job as a seamstress and supplements that with some cabaret work. Clearly she has s…