Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (15)
Fri 27 – Tue 31 Aug
Cinema: £6.50 (£5.25)
Director: Jan Kounen
Country: France
Cast: Anna Mouglalis, Mads Mikkelsen
Year of Release: 2009
Subtitled
Certificate: 15
Length of film: 120mins
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CloseCoco Chanel is devoted to her work and madly in love with the handsome and very wealthy Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel. At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his Rite of Spring. Coco attends the premiere and is mesmerised. But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. Stravinsky is inconsolable.
Seven years later. Now rich, respected and successful, Coco is devastated by Boy Capel’s death. She meets Stravinsky again – now a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris after the Russian Revolution, the attraction between them is immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her new villa in Garches, so that he will be able to work, and he moves in straight away, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins…
*Post Screening Discussion – Fri 27 Aug. *
Dates & Times
| Fri 27 Aug | Cinema | 6:30pm | ||
| Sat 28 Aug | Cinema | 4:00pm | ||
| Sat 28 Aug | Cinema | 8:45pm | ||
| Sun 29 Aug | Cinema | 4:00pm | ||
| Mon 30 Aug | Cinema | 4:00pm | ||
| Tue 31 Aug | Cinema | 6:30pm |
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