COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY

Year: 2009
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
UK: Soda Pictures
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Anna Mouglalis, Elena Morozova, Natacha Lindinger, Grigori Manoukov, Rasha Bukvic, Nicolas Vaude, Anatole Taubman, Eric Desmarestz, Clara Guelblum, Maxime Danielou, Sophie Hasson, Nikita Ponomarenko, Catherine Davenier, Olivier Claverie
Director: Jan Kounen
Country: France
Languages: French / Russian / English (English subtitles)
USA: 115 mins
UK: 118 mins
USA Rated: R for some strong sexuality and nudity
UK Certificate: 15 contains moderate sex and sexualised nudity
USA Release Date: 11 June 1020 (Limited Release - New York and Los Angeles)
UK Release Date: 6 August 2010

Synopsis

Paris 1913

Igor Stravinsky has the premiere of his The Rite Of Spring at the Theatre Des Champs-Elysees. Coco Chanel is in the audience and is mesmerized. But his revolutionary work is too modern and too radical for the audience who voice their discontent and direct their wrath at it. Stravinsky is inconsolable.

Seven years later, Coco Chanel is now wealthy, respected and successful. When she meets Stravinsky he is a poverty stricken refugee living in exile in Paris after the Russian Revolution. Despite their different circumstances, their attraction to each other is spontaneous and electric.

When Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her villa in Garches to enable him to pursue his work, he doesn't hesitate and moves in immediately, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins...