When I first saw the trailers, I was excited. My mind went to another French movie, the biography of Edith Piaff "La vie en rose" which was great. This is a very flat movie. I really wanted to see how Coco Chanel built her empire. The movie doesn't show that at all. It doesn't even do a good job of showing her potential as an artist.
**Spoilers** She comes up as a very simply woman who is strangely content with being a mistress. All we see is her moving around in a great mansion, a hopeless romance, falling for the wrong guy and not realizing her dreams of marriage. And there are those short scenes where we see her tailoring a dress but that is it. It is only at the very end of the movie, maybe the last minute, the movie gives a glimpse of what she has become in the later years but even that is so lacking in spirit and very vague.
I have to say this is a poorly made biography about somebody whose character probably has more spirit and inventiveness than what this movie portrays. I like Audrey Tautou but she is not giving much life to her character which is probably due to the way the script is written. She doesn't have much depth.
**Spoilers** She comes up as a very simply woman who is strangely content with being a mistress. All we see is her moving around in a great mansion, a hopeless romance, falling for the wrong guy and not realizing her dreams of marriage. And there are those short scenes where we see her tailoring a dress but that is it. It is only at the very end of the movie, maybe the last minute, the movie gives a glimpse of what she has become in the later years but even that is so lacking in spirit and very vague.
I have to say this is a poorly made biography about somebody whose character probably has more spirit and inventiveness than what this movie portrays. I like Audrey Tautou but she is not giving much life to her character which is probably due to the way the script is written. She doesn't have much depth.