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The Celluloid Closet

CGiii Rating

Frivolous romantic nonsense about Coco Chanel including brief reference to her lesbian affair with Misia Sert, played by Simone Signoret's daughter, Catherine Allegret.

Public Rating

Chanel Solitaire

Country: UK | France | USA, Language: English, 120 mins

The Celluloid Closet | Archived Trailer: NOT YET REVIEWED | Bio-pic | The Culture of Queers | 1981
  • Director: George Kaczender
  • Writer: Claude Delay; Julian More
  • Producer: Ted Dowd; Éric Rochat

CGiii Comment

The film tells the story of the early life and rise to fame and fortune of French fashion designer Coco Chanel, beginning with her upbringing in an orphanage and training as a milliner, but concentrating on her relationship with Etienne de Balsan and her tempestuous love affair with his friend Boy Capel, and the role the two men played in setting her up as an independent business woman.

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Cast & Characters

Marie-France Pisier as Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel;
Timothy Dalton as Boy Capel;
Rutger Hauer as Etienne de Balsan;
Brigitte Fossey as Adrienne;
Karen Black as Emilienne d'Alencon;
Leila Frechet as Young Coco Chanel;
Philippe Nicaud as Gabrielle's Father;
Alexandra Stewart as Nathalie;
Catherine Allegret as Gabrielle's Friend;
Helene Vallier as Aunt Louise;
Marie-Helene Daste;
Jean-Marie Proslier as Poiret;
Lambert Wilson;
Humbert Balsan as Robert;
Catherine Alcover as Lady

IMDb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082156/