Review of Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009) by Foong M — 18 Mar 2012

This movie definitely deserves an award in cinematography! All the designs are awesome, ranging from fashion, interior, the play and the outdoor scene. No doubt the fashion and taste by Coco Chanel is absolutely sensible and graceful, but the house was also seemingly telling the character of Coco of being a famous fashion designer: strong, rigid, independent, and self-centered. Anna Mouglalis might not need to use too much facial expression to tell her feeling, still her body build and make up drastically help her in her acting. On the other hand, Mads Mikkelsen as a Danish actor might need a lot of effort in practicing piano, speaking French and Russian to play a great musician.

I love the story. The play about The Rite of Spring is definitely memorable. It showed a lot of hard work for the director and photographer thinking how to tell the story and shoot the progress of the play.