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.
Costume
The wardrobe evolution alone deserves its own Oscar.
Acting
Shirley MacLaine devours every scene like it's haute couture.
Director
Christian Duguay
Shirley MacLaine
Coco Chanel
Malcolm McDowell
Marc Bouchier
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Paul Poiret
Barbora Bobuľová
Young Coco Chanel
Brigitte Boucher
Madame de Rochefort
Cécile Cassel
Gabrielle Dorziat
Robert Dawson
Lord Fry
Daniele Savoca
Maurice De Nexon
Francesca Cavallin
Lady Diana
Maria P. Petruolo
Odette
Maggie Steed
Adrienne
Brigitte Christensen
Alexandra of Russia
Valentina Lodovini
Adrienne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shirley MacLaine was 74 playing Chanel at 70, but Barbora Bobuľová's performance as young Coco was so acclaimed she nearly overshadowed the star.
The film controversially sidesteps Chanel's WWII collaboration with Nazis—a glaring omission given her documented affair with a German officer.
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