Coco Before Chanel, Review Oct 17, 2009
Directed by Anne Fontaine, written by Anne Fontaine, Camille Fontaine, Edmonde Charles-Roux; Starring Audrey Tautou, Beno t Poelvoorde, and Alessandro Nivola. The copyright of the article Coco Before Chanel, Review in is owned by. (Suite101.com)
Movie capsule reviews Oct 9, 2009
t Poelvoorde and Alessandro Nivola as two of her lovers. (105 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris). (Boston Globe)
Coco meets her match in Tautou Oct 3, 2009
Starring Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola and Marie Gillain ... Alessandro Nivola plays the other man in Coco's life, Boy Capel, a blithe English polo player who encourages Coco's design ambitions ... Starring Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola and Marie Gillain. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
‘Coco’ has fashion, but lacks real passion Oct 2, 2009
Audrey Tautou is Coco Chanel and Alessandro Nivola is Arthur "Boy" Capel, the man she loves, in "Coco Before Chanel." (Chantal Thomine-Desmazures/Sony Pictures Classics) By Globe Staff / October 2, 2009 ... The movie then introduces the second man, a tycoon named Arthur Boy Capel (Alessandro Nivola), and wakes up for a few scenes ... t Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, and Emmanuelle Devos. (Boston Globe)
Coco in bloom Sep 30, 2009
But as Fontaine shows us, there would be no Chanel without Arthur "Boy" Capel, the dashing, wealthy businessman (played by American actor Alessandro Nivola) who financed her early career and with whom she had a passionate, short-lived affair. (She never married. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Coco Before Chanel: The Making of a Fashion Icon Sep 25, 2009
Movie Review: 'Coco Before Chanel': Making a Fashion Icon - TIME (Time.com)
Audrey Tautou, Alessandro Nivola shine in 'Chanel' Sep 25, 2009
Alessandro Nivola is a charmer as "Boy" Capel ... Audrey Tautou, Alessandro Nivola shine in 'Chanel ... Stars: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle DevosDirector: Anne FontaineDistributor: Sony Pictures ClassicsRating: PG-13 for sexual content and smokingRunning time: 1 hour, 45 minutesOpens Friday in New York and Los Angeles. (USA Today -- Life)
Raise a dynasty Sep 25, 2009
COCO Before Chanel" begs to be compared to "La Vie en Rose," each being about a French ragamuffin who made it big after picking up a nickname in a saloon. But where the earlier film offered an immense lead performance and artistic bravado of both director and subject, this one is a flat, airless tale of a sullen hooker who lucked out. Audrey Tautou -- more like Audrey Tetu, French for stubborn -- plays the orphanage-raised Gabrielle Chanel as the anti-Am;lie. She spends most of the movie in a... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Pretty Coco Before Chanel lacks substance Sep 24, 2009
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benot Poelvoorde, Alessandro NivolaDirectors: Anne FontaineRun time: 1 hour, 50 minutesMPAA rating: PG-13 ... And supposedly, shes truly in love with his friend, Arthur Boy Capel (Alessandro Nivola), but even her involvement in that relationship seems almost passive. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Capsule reviews: `Capitalism' and others Sep 24, 2009
While living with the randy Etienne Balsan (Benoit Poelvoorde), functioning as his "geisha," as he liked to call her, she supposedly was in love with his friend, Arthur "Boy" Capel (Alessandro Nivola), but even her involvement in that relationship seems almost passive. PG-13 for sexual content and smoking. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Anthony Lane: “Coco Before Chanel” and “Walt & El Grupo.” Sep 22, 2009
As if to stress the point, she bags herself a real Brit: one of Balsan s chums, by the name of Boy Capel (Alessandro Nivola). Later, during the First World War, he acted as a go-between for Lloyd George and Clemenceau, but to Fontaine he is simply a charm-powered cad, who mildly asks of Balsan, Mind if I borrow her for a few days. (New Yorker)
Coco Avant Chanel Jun 25, 2009
Coco has two lovers - Etienne Balsan (Benoit Poelvoorde), a wealthy French playboy and horse breeder, and Arthur "Boy" Capel (Alessandro Nivola), a British businessman with aristocratic connections. But her paramount passion is style. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Biopic breathes new life into Chanel story May 29, 2009
Fontaine also includes the death of Chanel's great love, the British industrialist Boy Capel (played by Alessandro Nivola), which took place in the years after those shown in the film, because of the huge impact his death had on the designer. "It was the most important love of her whole life," the 49 year-old Luxembourg-born director told CNN. "When he's dead, when he disappears, something breaks and she only has the work.". (CNN -- Showbiz)
Still a Box Office Star? Mar 24, 2009
The group included Gandolfini s ex TV wife, Edie Falco, as well as Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush, Janet McTeer, Chris Meloni, America Ferrara and Eric Mabius from "Ugly Betty," playwright whoops movie director and Oscar nominated screenwriter John Patrick Shanley, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Caroline Rhea, ex Soprano Joey Pantoliano, Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola, David Hyde Pierce, Alan Alda, and what seemed like every Broadway performer who had the night off like Colin Hanks from "33... (Fox News)
