COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY explores the consuming relationship between the fashion icon and the radical composer. Continuing the story from 2009's Coco Before Chanel, Coco Chanel meets Igor Stravinsky for the first time at the premiere of his revolutionary work The Rite of Spring. The modern piece enrages the audience at the Champs-Élysées and a near riot ensues, leaving Stravinsky inconsolable.--©Official Site
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The Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordoña
“Here, the smoke-voiced and striking Anna Mouglalis projects intelligence and unassailable self-confidence, giving a clue to why both films are so engaging: Chanel is a prototypical independent, modern woman. Danish star Mads Mikkelsen is formidable.”
11/06/2010
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The New York Times
Stephen Holden
“The rest of the film is cool, elegant and sexy, with scrupulously detailed Art Deco design and shadowy lighting that lends many of the scenes a painterly depth. But the film — adapted from Chris Greenhalgh’s novel, with a screenplay written by the author with the director and Carlo de Boutiny — never regains that initial blast of energy and the final scenes wobble toward a wishy-washy ending.”
11/06/2010
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Empire Magazine
Patrick Peters
“Impeccably staged, but stiffly played, this is an elegant, if airless account of the designer’s tempestuous dalliance with the composer.”
08/08/2010
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The Guardian
Steve Rose
“...proceedings are conducted with cool reticence, both to convey the sheer modernity of the affair, and to avoid straying too much from the official biographies...”
05/08/2010
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“This Coco is more austere and ruthless than Tautou's gamine waif, and the film itself is a more considered, textured portrait.”
06/08/2010
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The Daily Telegraph
Sukhdev Sandhu
“The real problem Kounen is unable to solve is how to give flesh to such a thin and in many ways conjectural relationship. A few jarring sex scenes can’t add sufficient life to this stately but often inert drama between a wet fish of a composer and a designer who you spend much of the film’s two-hour duration hoping will get ash on one of her outfits.”
05/08/2010
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Total Film
Neil Smith
“One more film – maybe Coco’s Nazi liaisons? – and we’ll have a boxset.”
02/08/2010
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Variety
Jordan Mintzer
“On a dramatic level, Dutch-born helmer Jan Kounen’s hyper-stylized, emotionally vacuous film is like a pair of designer pants that look great but don’t fit, or a rare vinyl recording that keeps skipping at the best parts.”
23/05/2010
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The Observer
Philip French
“This is a beautiful, intelligent, shallow film, like a pane of plate glass that at first glance looks like a deep lake.”
08/08/2020
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The Independent on Sunday
Nicholas Barber
“The paramours' sangfroid is all very classy, but as the affair continues, we're none the wiser as to what's in it for them beyond the obvious. Did it change them as people? Did it affect their respective creations? ... The stylish but standoffish film version isn't much more than 90-year-old celebrity gossip. ”
08/08/2010
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“It might all have been more interesting to watch if the lovers’ passion had lit up the screen, but neither of the stars, Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen, musters much of a spark.”
08/08/2010
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The Financial Times
Nigel Andrews
“...unbelievable tosh...”
04/08/2010
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
“...two gruelling hours in the company of two colossal bores groping each other...”
06/08/2010
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