Sometimes it feels like indie film is a little small town where everyone's connected somehow. We're bidding a fond adieu to Micmacs this weekend, to say bienvenue to Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. So how does this break down on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon scale? Micmacs was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who also directed Amelie which helped make Audrey Tatou a household name, who played Coco Chanel in Coco before Chanel, which as the name indicates is Coco's story before she became the best smelling woman in France, or a designer. I'm bad with history like that. Coco & Igor picks up a little later in her life, bringing in the story of composer Igor Stravinsky and explores their "relationship". I put the term in quotes, since they begin a romantic tryst when Igor AND HIS WIFE AND KIDS move into Coco's place. It's just like Three's Company set in France! I'm guessing this trailer below will dispel that notion...
Full disclosure here, this is a movie that's received mixed reviews among critics, but they do agree that this is a visually appealing and well acted film, not unlike our recent smash I Am Love, and fashion is involved so the costuming (is that a word?) has been compared to The Young Victoria. Roger Ebert was a fan, as evidenced in his review here, and Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter calls the movie "a sumptuous re-creation of '20s France and the mad affair between two of the century's most iconic figures". Here's another time I wished I worked as a tag line developer for movies. My first revelation was with the truck driving tour de force Black Dog - "Patrick Swayze...Randy Travis...and Meatloaf...you'll come back for seconds." Had I been given the opportunity for this one, it most definitely would have been "Igor crazy for Coco's Puffs!"
And now you know why I am a financial analyst.
Hahaha brilliant.
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