Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Coco Chanel, devoted to her work and madly in love with the handsome and very wealthy Arthur ‚ÄòBoy‚Äô Capel, appears at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where Igor Stravinsky premieres his Rite of Spring. Coco is mesmerized, but the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical, and the enraged audience boos and jeers. Seven years later, Coco and Igor meet again in opposite situations. She is now rich, respected and successful, and is devastated by Boy Capel’ death, while he is living in exile in France after the Russian Revolution, The attraction between them is immediate. Coco offers him 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 wife. A passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA