Review | Coco Before Chanel

OPENS: Friday 9/25

Audrey Tautou (Amélie) looks luminous as French designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in this romantic biopic, which dramatizes Chanel's life before she became a fashion icon. The young Chanel ripens from orphan to cabaret singer to rich man’s mistress, ultimately turning her menswear inspired sense of style into a worldwide brand. It’s a gorgeous portrait of an independent, visionary woman.

-- THELMA ADAMS