Coco Before Chanel
Optimum Home Entertainment are pleased to make available the official packshot, images and trailer to celebrate the DVD and Blu Ray release of the most stylish film of the year Coco Before Chanel, out on DVD and Blu-ray on November 23rd, starring the beautiful Audrey Tautou as fashion icon Coco Chanel.
Now the second biggest French language film of all time in the UK, the film tells the story of Gabrielle Chanel (Audrey Tautou: Amélie, The Da Vinci Code), who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey becomes the legendary couturier that embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style.
As a little girl, Gabrielle is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of France, where she waits in vain every Sunday for her father to come for her.
A few years later Gabrielle is a humble seamstress by day, stitching hems at the back of a provincial tailor's shop, whilst by night she is a cabaret performer with a weak voice who sings to an audience of drunken soldiers.
One night she meets middle-aged aristocrat Etienne Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde, (Entre ses mains/In His Hands, Podium) who offers her a safe haven as a young courtesan amongst the idle and decadent of French society.
Reborn as Coco, a rebel who finds the conventions of her time oppressive and instead dresses in her lovers' clothes, she soon encounters the friends and lovers who will shape her life through triumph and tragedy, and who inspire her ascent to the pinnacle of Fashion legend Coco Before Chanel is directed by Anne Fontaine (The Girl From Monaco) from a screenplay she co-wrote with her sister Camille and with the collaboration of Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons).