“Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” is a study in wry smiles, passionate looks and the fiery temperament of two 20thCentury icons. The movie is based on the fictional novel “Coco & Igor” by Chris Greenhalgh, who also wrote the screenplay. It explores the rumored affair between the famous pair outside of Paris in 1920. The film starts in 1913 with the debut of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”. The choreography was audacious and the music was pulsating. It was however a bit too much for the audience as they rioted. Back then the crowd expected their ballet more demure and not so aggressive. Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelson) was crushed by this supposed failure and angry at choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (Marek Kossakowski). All the while, Chanel (Anna Mouglasis) sat mesmerized in the crowd with her lover Boy Capel (Anatole Taubman).
- 7/23/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Another chapter in the life of history's most influential woman in fashion continues with the screen adaptation of Chris Greenhalgh's 2002 novel Coco & Igor as Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (French title: Chanel Coco & Igor Stravinsky). This dramatization of Chanel's alleged affair with a man as influential and diverse as herself picks up not long after where last year's critically acclaimed by Anne Fontaine, Coco Before Chanel, ends. Although the two films have much in common, there's less appeal and passion to this adaptation.
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky begins with a scandal, but not quite the one immediately expected -- the 1913 Paris premiere of Stravinsky’s modernist ballet, "Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring)." Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) is nervously awaiting for the curtain to rise as Ballet Russes impresario/founder Sergei Diaghilev (Grigori Manoukov) and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (Marek Kossakowski) are frantically directing the dancers and orchestra. Within the first act,...
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky begins with a scandal, but not quite the one immediately expected -- the 1913 Paris premiere of Stravinsky’s modernist ballet, "Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring)." Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) is nervously awaiting for the curtain to rise as Ballet Russes impresario/founder Sergei Diaghilev (Grigori Manoukov) and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky (Marek Kossakowski) are frantically directing the dancers and orchestra. Within the first act,...
- 7/15/2010
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
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