Audrey Tautou To Play Coco Chanel In French biopic with Warners Source: Variety
It was announced at Cannes (where else?) that Audrey Tautou would be playing fashion legend Coco Chanel in a new biopic - but now, with shooting just weeks away, Warners has stepped forward to finance and co-produce the film, titled Coco Avant Chanel.
It's to be directed by Anne Fontaine, whose film Comment j'ai tué mon père you may remember from a year or two back. The story is to be based on Edmonde Charles-Roux's biography L'Irreguliere, focusing on Chanel's ground-breaking ways and penchant for trend-setting - as an example for the fashion clueless in the audience, sunbathing was never popular in Europe until Coco came back from holiday with a golden tan. So when you think about it, her lasting legacy isn't just perfume and lilttle black dresses; it's also melanoma. Ooops.
Karl Lagerfeld, art director of the fashion house Chanel founded, will be overseeing the costumes, most of which will be re-creations of Chanel's own designs and which will therefore totally outclass Sex and the City in the costume department.
Anne and Camille Fontaine co-wrote the script, with Christopher "Atonement, Dangerous Liaisons" Hampton consulting. Production starts in Paris on September 15, and the film's due out next year.
and the posters already out, she looks great and she will be awesome!
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Wasn't there already a Coco Chanel movie announced recently? I think it was supposed to star Mads Mikkelsen but it appears to have vanished from IMDB. Anyone know what gives? ... Read More
while im hardly qualified to comment on whether or not toutou is the right actress for the role, i have to admit that in a world of sex and the city and mamma mia this actually sounds like the sort of film my girlfriend will love that i wont have to dread seeing. ... Read More
Tautou is freakin annoying (except for Amelie, that was clearly a team job with Jeunet, and a movie as a whole, not just Tautou's performance), and as a French who loves fashion, I don't see her as the actress to play Coco Chanel. The rumor has been going on for a while, because she's bankable in the international cinema and that way, the studios know will attract a larger audience, but honestly, she's not a great actress, she doesn't have the "shoulders" for this kind of role, and con... Read More
