More sentimental than chic, Gallic biopic “Coco Before Chanel” nonetheless knits a convincing portrait of the designer’s journey from her humble beginnings as a provincial seamstress to the ...

In the new film, Coco Before Chanel, we watch as these men — and others — help transform the penniless, canny Mademoiselle Coco into the famous, fabulous designer who transformed ladies' fashion.

And this week (Nov. 6), the French-language "Coco Before Chanel" -- a period biopic on game-changing designer Coco Chanel -- lands at local theaters. If there was a time that fashion has been more ...

There are at least two ways to think about the welcome arrival of “Coco Before Chanel,” starring Audrey Tautou as the woman whose pet name became synonymous with couture. Each proves more than ...

The young Coco Chanel noticed style everywhere, even in the crisp white and basic black of the nuns' habits at the orphanage where she was raised. "Coco Before Chanel" has a similarly keen eye for ...

As Coco Before Chanel shows, telling the life story of an icon is never an easy task and when achieved, it is brilliant. Audrey Tautou’s brilliant performance as Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel has ...

Rating note: The film contains sexual situations. The good new French film "Coco Before Chanel" takes the tack of the Jane Austen biopic, "Becoming Jane," from a few years back (or even this year ...

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born in 1883 in a hospice ... so potent and so alluring.” But before Chanel was a couturier, she was a milliner – and also proved herself a shrewd ...

Coco Before Chanel (in French with subtitles) gives us a peek at this fashion-forward woman ahead of her time in the spotlight, focusing on her surprisingly dramatic and difficult beginnings.

Although Chanel’s reticence may sound like a barrier to filmmakers, it stimulated co-writer and director Fontaine and star Tautou, who’ve combined to turn “Coco Before Chanel” into a ...

“Coco Before Chanel” (opening October 2 at Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinemas) not only looks at the famous designer before she became a brand but also offers us a French actress in the role after ...