Coco
Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
Runtime:2hrs
Rating: (M) Contains Sex Scenes
Picking up where
Coco avant Chanel left off, focusing on the period when Chanel (here
played by Anna Mouglalis) became Stravinsky’s (Mads Mikkelsen)
artistic benefactor, this film offers a darker second chapter to the
designer’s long biography.
In 1920 she befriended the great revolutionary composer and his family,
offering the penniless and homeless musician refuge in her country mansion.
There have been rumours that Coco and Igor had an affair at this time.
Director Jan Kounen has worked with writer Chris Greenhalgh to adapt
his book Coco and Igor which takes this premise and spins it into an
intimate portrait of a fearless modern woman attracted to an equally
indomitable man. Shot at many of the original locations and superbly
mounted from start to finish, the film opens with a breathtaking recreation
of the famous riot provoked at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
by the 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Chanel
sits in the audience electrified by her future lover’s assault
on bourgeois propriety.