Coco Before Chanel(2009)

movie - first aired/released 2009-04-22 - 110 min - audience 6.9

Drama, History

Directed by Anne Fontaine

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.