audrey toutou

Actress Audrey Tautou and designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel are both international symbols of modern French femininity – Chanel as the trend-setting couturier who liberated 20th century women with the simplicity and ease of her clothing, and Tautou as the single most recognizable French actress in the world, thanks to her captivating performances in films like 2001’s Oscar-nominated Amelie and a little 2006 thriller called “The Da Vinci Code. This fall, the lives of Audrey Tautou and Coco Chanel converge in Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel, a handsomely crafted biopic that takes the unconventional tack of highlighting the couturier’s life leading up to, but not beyond, the success of her signature style.