COCO Chanel had quite a life, but you’ll only find the prologue to it here. Coco Avant Chanel; (Coco before Chanel), deals with the fashion designer’s early years, before she became an institution and a legend.
As a child, Chanel was deposited in a Catholic orphanage by her father. With one of her sisters (Marie Gillain), she worked as a seamstress and did cabaret acts at night.
With the help of the wealthy, well-connected Etienne Balsan (Benoit Poelvoorde), Chanel started to find a place...
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