"There’s something unsettling about seeing Audrey Tautou, because she looks uncannily like the designer Coco Chanel."
Though not without its pathos, "Coco Before Chanel" was a peculiar film. I was never certain what, if anything, it was trying to illustrate about either Chanel or the period, but Tautou was, of course, perfect. Whatever the resemblance to Chanel herself, her face always seems sufficient to master three quarters of any performance. But that remaining quarter! What a treat it is to watch an intelligent face! What a difference it makes. I must try to remember to track down the biography the writer is releasing (note to self: Justine Picardo). I must also, for an entirely different take, listen to my recording of Hepburn's "Coco"—a Lerner and Lowe musical more or less forgotten. I can't imagine her singing anything, let alone singing in a musical devoted to the life of Chanel, but we are talking about Katharine Hepburn. To borrow a phrase from one of her late, great films, a Lion in Winter.
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