Coco Chanel: Season 1

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Lifetime | Season Premiere Date: September 13, 2008

Summary: The life and loves of the famous fashion icon Coco Chanel (Shirley MacLaine) is explored in this TV movie from Lifetime.

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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Adam Buckman

Bobulova is delightful to watch, playing the younger Coco as winsome, stubborn, independent and gifted. MacLaine, seen always with a cigarette between two fingers, has less screen time, but she commands every minute in which she appears. Read full review

David Hinckley

Shirley MacLaine will get most of the attention for playing fashion legend Coco Chanel in this smart-looking and solidly crafted new Lifetime biopic premiering Saturday night. Read full review

Marilyn Moss

We don't get a great deal of character development, nor do we always get the truth, but with Coco, there is plenty to see and do. Read full review

David Wiegand

Oh, it's not very French and the dialogue is absurd, but somehow from this divine mess emerges something that at least approximates a woman you have to admire. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Perhaps appropriately, the period trappings and costumes are impeccable, part of a miniseries that weaves six production logos into its hemline--suggesting more commerce than art in its conception. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Czech actress Barbora Bobulova has the greater misfortune of acting out Harlequin-romance shenanigans amid Pepé le Pew accents. Worst of all, the subject's revolutionary designs are almost entirely marginalized.

Mary McNamara

A little whitewashing is forgivable in a biopic, but to make a movie about the most influential figure in fashion history in which she spends more time moping around about her boyfriends than she does designing clothes is infuriating. Read full review

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ChloeC.

Sep 15, 2008

This is a very good show. One of my favorites. It doesn't get old.