Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is an upcoming French film directed by Jan Kounen. It was chosen as the Closing Film of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was shown on 24 May 2009.
The film traces the affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1920, the year that Chanel No. 5 was created.
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is based on the 2002 novel Coco & Igor by Chris Greenhalgh. Greenhalgh also wrote the screenplay for the film. Karl...
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is an upcoming French film directed by Jan Kounen. It was chosen as the Closing Film of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was shown on 24 May 2009.
The film traces the affair between Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky in Paris in 1920, the year that Chanel No. 5 was created.
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is based on the 2002 novel Coco & Igor by Chris Greenhalgh. Greenhalgh also wrote the screenplay for the film. Karl Lagerfeld, the current chief designer of Chanel, lent his support to the production.
Jan Kounen shot both French-language and English-language versions of the film.
Paris, 1913: Coco Chanel attends the first, scandalous performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The rhythmic dissonance of the score and the shocking choreography of the piece cause a riot. But Coco is impressed when Igor storms out of the theatre.
Seven years later, Coco and Igor meet again. Although her business has flourished, Coco is mourning her lover, Arthur ...
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