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Nov 30, 2009CalicoJack rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
This made-for-TV biopic is a long, drawn-out slap in the face of one of history’s most innovative & influential clothing designers. My points of objection include disappointing visuals (e.g., too many drab camera close-ups on trivial accessories); too many simplistic lectures from The History of Costume 101; and the fatal miscasting of Shirley MacLaine, who misrepresents Chanel in her later years as a charmless, Americanized, frumpy old bag. It treats her early love affairs as tritely as her clothing, spewing forth every cliché in the book concerning Europe’s minor aristocracy & allowing a single promising scene involving a tango for three to fall flat on its face dramatically. Despite my passion for fashion—no, correction: because of it—both I & a more cinema-savvy friend opted to fast-forward through much of this insipid timewaster.