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Coco Chanel is a french film of genre Drama directed by Christian Duguay released in USA on 13 september 2008 with Shirley MacLaine

Coco Chanel (2008)

Coco Chanel
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Released in USA 13 september 2008
Length 2h19
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Comedy-drama,    Romance
Themes La mode
Rating67% 3.3957053.3957053.3957053.3957053.395705

Coco Chanel is a 2008 television film directed by Christian Duguay and written by Ron Hutchinson, Enrico Medioli and Lea Tafuri. It stars Shirley MacLaine as (the older) Coco Chanel, the pioneering French fashion designer. MacLaine was nominated for a Golden Globe award, an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild award for her work in the film.

Although an Italian-French-British production backed by Rai Uno and France 2, Coco Chanel was primarily intended for the US market and was first broadcast in the United States on 13 September 2008 by cable channel Lifetime Television. It premiered in Italy three weeks later, and in France on 29 December 2008. In Britain, it was first released on DVD, in June 2011. Its first British TV broadcast was on True Entertainment in April 2014.

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La célèbre styliste française Coco Chanel, au crépuscule de sa vie, se souvient de ses débuts… D’origine modeste, la jeune Gabrielle Chanel apprend la couture comme il était de coutume pour les filles. Très douée, elle trouve rapidement un emploi de couturière, mais aspire à s’élever socialement. Elle va révolutionner la mode en libérant la femme du carcan des jupons et autres corsets…

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