Word: tautou
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...soul mate, Fanny Browne, expanded to 130 screens and earned a hearty $682,000 from lovers of sentimental art-house fare. And Coco Before Chanel, one of three biopics of the couturier to be released in theaters or on DVD this year - this one starring Amelie's Audrey Tautou - had a moderately glamorous debut, with $177,000 in five boutiques...
...what makes certain aspects of the last decade of moviemaking seem so disappointing. With a few exceptions, attempts at depicting the interior life of a woman have been put on the backburner. Nouvelle gamine figures like “Amélie” star Audrey Tautou tap into the rich inheritance of the ’60s and ’70s but retain all the cuteness without the introspection. Those recent films that do present well-defined female characters—“Whale Rider,” “Thirteen...
...YORK CITY Coco Before Chanel French actress Audrey Tautou plays a convincing Coco Chanel in director Anne Fontaine's film about the fiery fashion designer's long and colorful life and career (opens Sept...
...company, says it was obliged to refuse a poster for Coco, Before Chanel because it violates a 1991 law "prohibiting all direct or indirect advertising" for tobacco or alcohol in most public venues. Under that ban, Métrobus reasoned that the poster's shot of a pyjama-clad Tautou holding a flaming ciggie aloft in a typical pose of the real Chanel could be interpreted as an encouragement to light up. It's not like anyone in France ever needed much prodding to do that. But Métrobus decided to play it safe, and asked Coco's studio...
Warner Bros. opted for the latter - sort of. It replaced the 1,100 posters in its Métro campaign with alternative ones showing Tautou as Chanel sans tabac. The original ads won't go to waste - they have been deployed as planned beyond the confines of the Métro. But in refusing to alter its depiction of Chanel wielding one of her beloved cigarettes, Warner Bros. rejected a revisionist compromise that others have been forced to make...