STYLE NV Review - I Should Coco

Last night Hannah, my trusty friend and STYLE NV's unofficial Sub Editor, took ourselves down to the Everman Cinema in Baker Street to see the next biop film in the life of Coco Chanel "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" (France seem to be bringing out a lot of rather ok, biops lately, since the success of La Vie En Rose, which, for the record, I didn't think was that great). Anyhow, this film picks up where "Coco before Chanel" left off and Chanel takes in penniless Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, ill wife and his family to her home on the outskirts of Paris. An affair between Igor and Coco develops.The wife works it out (perceptive of her, given the lack of chemistry between the two of them) and leaves. Chanel ends the affair and Igor finishes his masterpiece and then decades later we see the pair apart and alone, wistfully thinking about their greatest time. I'm whizzing through the plot, because basically it wasn't much good; it was disjointed, badly acted (even in French and Russian, I could tell) and Anna Mouglalis strutted around the place like she was on a catwalk runway (she is Largerfield's muse, so it does explain things a bit). The most cringe worthy part was where Chanel goes to choose her scent; she picks the fifth one and the parfumier says "Number 5" - oh for god's sake!!

If you can bare the ok plot line, I would suggest going to see it, no actually, wait till it's on DVD but do see it (preferably in a dark room), because the sets and the costume are FABULOUS!
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