Coco Chanel is a person to admire and dream about because she rose from a simple life to become one of fashion designers most important icons.  Coco Before Chanelis a film by Anne Fontaine starring Audrey Tautou. Tautou plays the young Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel brilliantly in an innocent way. The movie opens in New York and Los Angles September 25, 2009.