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Audrey Tautou in 'Coco Before Chanel.'COCO BEFORE CHANEL 2 stars. out of 4Snapshot: A biopic focusing on the early life of pioneering French fashion designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel.

It also omits the messy World War II years and Chanel's affair with a Nazi spy. "Coco Before Chanel" is exquisite on the surface but barely peeks behind the seams.

Rather than more Coco, before, during, or after Chanel, perhaps the designer’s rival, Elsa Schiaparelli, who collaborated not with the Nazis but Giacometti and Cocteau, and whose life has yet to ...

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 ...

Coco Before Chanel is intelligent, entertaining, and eye-filling. The drama is perfectly supported by a beautiful score by my favorite contemporary film composer, Alexandre Desplat.