As a fashion history buff, this movie dissapoints. It wallows too much in the love story between Coco and Etienne, then the years 1912-1914 when Coco made hats. Her real breakthrough was in the WW1 years, but the movie almost skips this period altogether. The acting is mostly bad... with the (french) voices sounding stiff and funny.Also, the older Coco`s (Shirley Maclaine) comment that "I have no one to thank but myself for my success" is uncredible when the movie quite clearly shows her accepting a lot of grants from her lover Boy to finance her early career."Chanel solitaire" from 1981 still stands as the major movie about Coco Chanel. Let`s see what "Coco avant chanel" brings when it opens this late summer.