I finally watched Coco Avant Chanel with Audrey Tatou. Wow, she was great - really quite perfect for the part. I got the Blu-ray version since I managed to hook up my new machine and switch over my Netflix accoun to Blu-ray access. It's not really a movie you "need" to see in Blu-ray, but it was nice to have the super crisp video for all the beautiful cinematography. The costumes and set design were outstanding too. Also, I though Alessandro Nivola did a great job as Boy Capel, I didn't even recognize him... although I knew he was familiar, I couldn't figure it out...
It's hard not to compare it to the Coco Chanel movie on Lifetime with Shirley Maclaine since both covered a lot of the same ground. I acutally liked both of the movies, although in the tv movie I preferred the part with young Coco played by Barbora Bobulova. (I'm not a big fan of Maclaine.)
Audrey definitely looked like a professional smoker in the movie, which is quite necessary to play Chanel. I wonder if she smokes in real life? Here are some pictures of the real Chanel, if these aren't a good warning for why NOT to smoke, I don't know what is. It looks like she aged quite poorly.
