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Coco Chanel

2008 · 139 min

A polished, old-fashioned biographical drama that moves between glamour and hardship, asking patience as it traces a determined woman's rise.

Overview: Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
identity
class
love
betrayal
Places: big city
countryside
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	3
Darkness	5
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama, romance
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Written by: James Carrington, Carla Giulia Casalini, Enrico Medioli, Jeffrey Hatcher
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Malcolm McDowell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Barbora Bobuľová, Brigitte Boucher, Cécile Cassel, Robert Dawson, Daniele Savoca
Music: Andrea Guerra
Cinematography: Fabrizio Lucci
Runtime: 139 min
Country: France, Italy, United Kingdom
Languages: English

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