Coco Before Chanel

Drew's Thoughts:
My least favorite part of biopics is the first 5-20 minutes where you see the subject before they actually did what he or she is considered important for. Coco Before Chanel's writer/director Anne Fontaine must savor those 5-20 minutes when she watches biopics however, because she made a film entirely about Coco Chanel before she did anything notable. This really is a shame because, considering how much interesting stuff did happen in Chanel's life and that she was a person of more than questionable moral character, I think there would have been a good film here had Fontaine pointed her camera beyond Chanel's "first 5-20 minutes."