Coco Before Chanel

The film was charming and pretty, but rather inconsequential. Tautou seemed to have been cast almost entirely as a box-office draw, and because she after all is the first actress most will think of when imagining French chic, but ultimately she was never believably as young as she ought to have been. A pretty film, with a central character who I found likeable despite her spikiness, and some beautiful setpieces and uniquely French characters. Just a shame that, as suggested by the title, it ends just before it gets really interesting, and we're left wondering how Coco finally gets the international success and reknown we know she must ultimately achieve.