Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor’s work parallel Coco’s radical ideas. She wants to democratize women’s fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable.

The film will be introduced by Jean-Louis Pautrot.

Jean-Louis Pautrot is Vice-President of the Société Française of St. Louis, and Professor of French at Saint Louis University, where he created the Film Studies program in 2002. He has published essays on French directors such as Jacques Tati, Louis Malle, Jean Epstein.