Coco Chanel
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Actor: Alice Cambournac, Brigitte Boucher, Cécile Cassel, Shirley MacLaine, Valentina CarneluttiDirector: Christian Duguay
Brand: Universal
Producer: Corrado Trionfera
Producer: Daniele Passani
Producer: Elisabetta Iovene
Writer: Carla Giulia Casalini
Writer: Enrico Medioli
Writer: James Carrington
Writer: Lea Tafuri
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 139 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-07-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 68109907
Studio: Screen Media
Product features:
- Academy Award winning actress Shirley MacLaine stars as Coco Chanel in this critically acclaimed film that charts the rise of one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. From her humble childhood and early days as a young dressmaker's assistant, to her passionate love affair with a dashing Englishman and ultimate success as a pioneering fashion icon, Coco Chanel is the story of a gl
DVD Reviews of Coco Chanel
DVD Review: I expected so much more...
Summary: 2 Stars
I love fashion. Need less to say...i love shoes! What woman doesn't, right? For the more of us who cant afford brand names like Chanel, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Prada and Coach to name a few, the chances of owning an ORIGINAL piece of a collection is well, pretty slim. But we all hope (most of us at least) to become powerful business people when we grow older, and we know that at some point in our lives we will be able to say "I own an original...". Behind every design there is of course a designer, but behind every designer, there is a story. I dont know about the rest of you but I love learning about where and how important people came to be. Because not all of them were born into privileges.
Yesterday for example, I was watching a movie called "Coco Chanel" and it was of course because of its title, the biography of the world renowned woman's fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, ( I bet you didnt know her name was Gabrielle hehe). I chose to watch the 2008 version in which starred legendary actress Shirley McLaine as the older Coco. Chanel was French...and Shirley is well...American. That was the first fault. The movie started off promising a good over view of Chanel's early childhood... but then came the blunders... After watching the movie i read up her entire biography and of those who were the main cast in the movie. For starters, the people who were supposed to be french, weren't, and their take on a french accent was horrid. The woman cast as Coco in her teen and later years was beautiful, she looked like Coco herself but the actress tried so hard to think about having a french accent (she is Slovenian) that she forgot how to act... There were some major changes in the movie, i guess to keep the audience interested but it was just too long. The France we all know wasn't the France in the movie... You can most definitely notice that the movie was based on a staged set, obviously not the scenes that took place outside or at the beach.
Knowing that Miss Chanel had to sacrifice so much in the process of starting her own business, makes one think that anything is possible and to never give up. But the movie focuses too much on the personal notes in which they didnt capture very well either. Another thing that bugged me about this movie was the voice over work. In case you didnt know, after a movie is done, actors go into a sound booth, kind of like if they were voicing a cartoon character, but in this case they are just repeating their dialogue from the movie. Some you dont even notice, but in some movies you can see that when you think the actor is saying something he really isnt and then the director notices and asks the actor to record the dialogue in the sound booth. In the Chanel movie, the voice over work was beyond horrible. You could tell that the actor's voice wasn't in tune with how they would say it while filming. Especially the character of Addriene. In the movie she is Coco's best friend, (in real life she was her aunt); as her biography says, Addriene had a deep voice, maybe in the 1940's woman had to chirp instead of talk LOL. But you could tell that the voice that came out of the actresses mouth, wasn't hers. The person who did the voice over spoke with no passion in her voice, she made up a horrible french accent and well it just wasn't a voice for that actress.
The other actors did voice over work too, and sometimes they would speak slower than the actor was speaking, so yeah, pretty bad.
Over all the movie disappointed me. I spent 2 hours waiting for some excitement. The only moment I felt sorry for her was when the love of Chanel's life, Boy Capel was killed in an accident. And I felt sorry for Chanel, not by the way she was portrayed. The biography Wikipedia has on her is way more exciting to be honest.
All i can say is she smoked a lot, but i mean a lot! and that her rise to fame took a lot of sacrifice, hard work, dedication and strength. I admire her as a woman because she never gave up and because she showed women that we don't have to dress how somebody else wants us to, but that we should dress how we feel.
I hope my review wasn't too critical, I am no expert, but it is just a point of view which I hope people take into consideration.
Description of Coco Chanel
Academy Award winning actress Shirley MacLaine stars as Coco Chanel in this critically acclaimed film that charts the rise of one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. From her humble childhood and early days as a young dressmaker's assistant, to her passionate love affair with a dashing Englishman and ultimate success as a pioneering fashion icon, Coco Chanel is the story of a glamorous woman who was hard to love and harder to ignore. Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominated, Coco Chanel is a must-see film for every lover of fashion and romance.Lovers of fashion, Paris, and love will adore Coco Chanel, a stylish biopic about the legendary fashion designer whose incredible vision and style would go on to become one of the most influential of the 20th century. And while Coco (née Gabrielle) Chanel's focus on her work was undeniable, and expertly chronicled in Coco Chanel, so, too, are her passionate loves--giving the film its depth and humanity. Shirley MacLaine shines as the older Coco, looking back at her legacy from the middle of the century, with her longtime companion and No. 1 booster, Marc Bouchier (Malcolm McDowell), at her side. MacLaine is equal parts arrogant, dismissive, and steadfast in her objective--yet just vulnerable enough to let viewers see the real woman beneath the hard exterior of international success. The stunning cast includes the Czechoslovakian-born Barbora Bobulova as the young Coco--as gamine and winsome as the young Shirley MacLaine--a determined young woman willing to work hard in a man's field and stay true to her own vision. Fashion fans will love learning the story of Chanel's rise from her poor beginnings in an orphanage to her hardscrabble start as a seamstress in Paris, slowly making contacts (and charming dashing young gentlemen) and insinuating her idea of elegant chic into the minds of a populace hungry for it. Chanel's conception of a fashion empire included the then-revolutionary idea of incorporating other products, like perfume; the young Coco, in creating her signature scent, said when launching Chanel No. 5, "I am sure this will be my lucky number." The DVD includes a fascinating making-of feature that shows the details of shooting on location and how the filmmakers got the period details absolutely parfait. --A.T. Hurley
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