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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Metascore
56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 28
  3. Negative: 1 out of 28
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  1. New York Observer
    Reviewed by: Rex Reed
    100
    Everything works miraculously here, making Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky one of the most bountiful experiences of the year.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Michael Ordona
    80
    The flesh-and-blood protagonists are powerful, driven people caught in a riptide.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky concerns a love affair between two irresistible forces who have never met an immovable object before.
  4. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    75
    Unlike last year's "Coco Before Chanel," in which Audrey Tautou played a warmer, kinder spirit, Mouglais presents her character as steely and unbending, a woman who has built her empire on her terms and refuses to abdicate the slightest control on her life.
  5. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    75
    Offers two hours of luxury and loveliness, music and art, and a bit of sexually charged madness, too.
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    For at least a half hour, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is a brilliant and exciting film and seems almost sure to be one of the best of 2010. Then it becomes simply good. Then it becomes merely interesting. And then, about 15 minutes before the finish, it becomes dull and interminable.
  7. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    70
    There are so many guilty pleasures here that it's amazing the film is as good as it is. The passions feel real, the roles are fully inhabited and the art speaks for itself.
  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Andrea Gronvall
    70
    The film would have been more satisfying if director Jan Kounen (Darshan: The Embrace) had shown more of the ferment of the times.
  9. Tampa Bay Times
    Reviewed by: Steve Persall
    67
    Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is an elegant scandal almost devoid of true passion, no matter how many times the nude lovers artfully mingle.
  10. Movieline
    Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    65
    Despite an admirable mastery of both Russian and French, Mikkelsen has no shot at making a proud (Russian!) musical genius a believably lovesick puppy.
  11. New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Reviewed by: Mike Scott
    63
    Getting two biographies on the same person in such a short window is unusual. What's even more unusual is that both suffer from the same flaw.
  12. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    63
    It's a little black dress of a movie, an elegant hint of something sensual that is ultimately denied to us.
  13. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    60
    Where the film fails, ironically, is in the central love affair. Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is undeniably gifted, but his Stravinsky is a blank, stoic presence only comfortable at a piano.
  14. Empire
    Reviewed by: Patrick Peters
    60
    A beautifully designed but overly formal biopic that can't match the greatness of the artists it depicts.
  15. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Olivia Giovetti
    60
    The opening riot at The Rite of Spring concert sets the scene for an anticlimactic biopic, which could have been sumptuously potent had this dual portrait of artists in love been trimmed…or at least hemmed.
  16. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Richard Mowe
    60
    A sumptuous recreation of 1920s France and the unbridled affair between two of the century's most iconic figures.
  17. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Dan Kois
    50
    Igor may be the most important composer of the 20th century, but he is a mere human. Coco, in this beautiful but indulgent French film, is a work of art.
  18. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    50
    It's all picture and no motion, as wooden as its framing. Lovely and lifeless, the result is a traditional portrait of two defiers of tradition.
  19. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Richard Nilsen
    50
    Two narcissists do not a couple make, and without any actual relationship, there really isn't a movie.
  20. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    50
    The costume design, however, is the film's most enthralling aspect; replicas of actual Chanel designs were created for the film, and a fresh costume graces nearly every sequence. Alas, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky unfolds on a screen instead of a catwalk.
  21. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    50
    The movie, by Dutch director Jan Kounen, is all surfaces, set pieces, Significant Looks, and voguing -- the same strictures Chanel and Stravinsky sought to bust.
  22. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    50
    Unfortunately, neither of these fascinating artistic giants is given much of a personality.
  23. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Karina Longworth
    50
    Here, Coco's cast as a femme fatale who preys on a helpless nebbish--the Audrey Tautou--starring "Coco Avant Chanel" was much more fun.
  24. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    50
    Never regains that initial blast of energy and the final scenes wobble toward a wishy-washy ending.
  25. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jordan Mintzer
    50
    On a dramatic level, Dutch-born helmer Jan Kounen's hyper-stylized, emotionally vacuous film is like a pair of designer pants that look great but don't fit, or a rare vinyl recording that keeps skipping at the best parts.
  26. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    50
    The movie's saving grace is its performances.
  27. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    50
    The well-staged opening sequence, which depicts the riot at the 1913 Paris première of "Le Sacre du Printemps," is, alas, the film's high point.
  28. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    38
    As portrayed by Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky weren't exactly Rhett & Scarlett.
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