Coco Avant Chanel - L'amore prima del mito

Dressing Up

As the title implies, “Coco Before Chanel” is one of those films, like “Young Mr. Lincoln” or “Young Winston,” which invite us to peek into the origins of the notable. These acts of preëmption are lured, by their nature, toward the “Aha!” moment—the point at which a future that we already know is neatly foretold in the present. Hence the closing scene of Barry Levinson’s “Young Sherlock Holmes,” in which the junior sleuth, viewed in profile, puts a pipe in his mouth and a deerstalker on his head for the first time, and begins to become himself. [...]

di Anthony Lane, articolo completo (7313 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yorker 28 settembre 2009