Various Los Angeles theaters
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June 11, 2010 – June 24, 2010
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Various prices
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“You gotta love movies where people smoke during love-making and cut their corsets off with scissors. Henry & June meets Immortal Beloved in this slow-burning, lushly crafted gem of a dysfunctional romance exploring the short-lived but salient affair between cultural icons Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky. Essentially, these two creative giants are drawn to one another in times of great personal crisis; as the film opens, Chanel's lover dies, and Stravinsky's masterpiece Rite of Spring incites riots and critical vitriol. Lavish and authentic locations and production design, sparse dialogue, explosive, smoldering, and stylized but realistic sex scenes contribute to the real-world fantasy — the ultimate lesson of which seems to be that if great art, like love itself, demands personal torment and self-sacrifice, so be it.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
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The film plays at the Laemmle Royal starting on June 11, then goes wide on June 18; check the website for details.
Sony Pictures Classics says:
Paris 1913. At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his The Rite of Spring. Coco Chanel attends the premiere and is mesmerized.But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. A near riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable. Seven years later, now rich, respected and successful, Coco Chanel meets Stravinsky again - 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 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...
