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(1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 29% Rotten Page   1   C "A static, familiar romantic tragedy. It lacks electricity, and while gorgeously produced and smartly acted, the stillness of the film is often insufferable."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C- "For as much as the camera loves Audrey Tautou--and it loves her a lot--director Anne Fontaine never shows the particular zing of je ne c'est quoi that rocketed Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel from gifted hat-maker to pioneering feminist fashion designer of the 20"   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Coco Before Chanel cannot get out from under the romantic fabrications and excesses that ostensibly annoyed its subject."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs D+ "Coco Before Chanel's approach is classic arthouse: handsome, measured, respectful, and soul-crushingly bland"   Cinematical   Eugene Novikov C "As cool and elegant as its heroine. Unfortunately it's also equally impassive, opaque and--at least in this incarnation--dull."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A bittersweet glimpse of the early life of the legendary French fashion icon Coco Chanel."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "One can see where the story might be of great interest to fans and devotees of Chanel, but for casual viewers who have never seen her as more than the face behind an empire, there's too little in this movie to provide more than a casual diversion."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy C+ "...a biopic that is two thirds soap opera and one third character study...Fontaine does little to root Chanel's future career in her past."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[T]here's a anesthetized feel to this sedate biopic that suggests a wrongheadedness in its focus: maybe the more interesting part of her life was after she became the icon of fashion..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Fontaine dramatizes Coco's struggles respectfully if mundanely, crafting believable period detail for her procession of key-life-moment scenes, all of which employ serviceable but far from groundbreaking psychologizing."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager "As drab, lifeless and stultifying as the fashions that Chanel was trying to liberate women from in the first place."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "Skilfully and beautifully filmed and acted."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 6/10 "The script...adheres closely to biopic conventions but is brought alive by the magnetic performance of Tautou with strong support particularly from Poelvoorde and Devos."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh 2/4 "A familiar lemonade-from-lemons period biopic or, in the case of the fashionista, a smart-suit-from-tattered-threads tale."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 3/5 "It again begs the question of why such a painstaking effort would be taken to re-create a life that could not seem less dramatic to the woman who’s living it."   Orlando Weekly   William Goss "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 17) of 17 OFCS Rating: 29% Rotten Page   1