Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009) on Netflix
Coco Chanel attends the scandalous 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Seven years later, she invites the exiled composer and his family to her villa outside Paris.
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- Rotten Tomatoes52%
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Plot summary
At the 1913 premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris, the audience heckles Igor Stravinsky's score and choreography, but Coco Chanel is taken with the music. Seven years pass. Chanel's business has prospered, and she mourns Arthur 'Boy' Capel, her lover, killed in a car crash. Stravinsky, having left Russia after the revolution, is a penniless refugee in Paris. Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballets Russes impresario, introduces them, and the two are drawn to each other at once. Chanel learns the Stravinsky family needs a home and invites the composer, his ailing wife and their children to Bel Respiro, her new villa in Garches, outside Paris, until they find somewhere of their own.
Cast
- Clara Guelblumas Milena Stravinskaya
- Maxime Daniélouas Teodor Stravinsky
- Sophie Hassonas Ludmila Stravinskaya
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- Nikita Ponomarenkoas Sulima Stravinskaya
- Inès Hernandezas Dancer 'Le Sacre du Printemps'
- Jérôme Pillementas Pierre Monteux, le chef d'orchestre
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Stravinsky never publicly referred to his alleged affair with Chanel, but she described it at length to biographer Paul Morand in 1946, published thirty years later as l'Allure de Chanel. Stravinsky's second wife, Vera, and his collaborator Robert Craft disputed her account, and the Chanel fashion house says there is no evidence of an affair.
- The Chanel fashion house and its former chief designer Karl Lagerfeld supported the production, granting access to the company's archives and to Coco Chanel's apartment at 31, rue Cambon, Paris.
