“Coco Before Chanel”
*** (out of 4 stars)
Director Anne Fontaine takes seriously the life and talents of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel without ever sacrificing the film’s refreshing elan. Audrey Tautou is soft-eyed and tough-minded as the orphan whose rough upbringing shaped her inventive designs. Benoît Poelvoorde brings enjoyable frisson as Étienne Balsan, Coco’s patron and pragmatic paramour. Also featured: Emmanuelle Devos and Alessandro Nivola as the man called “Boy.” PG-13. 1 hour, 50 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
“Hunger”
**** (out of 4 stars)
In 1981, Irish Republican Army leader Bobby Sands, locked up in Belfast’s Maze prison, began starving himself. Ten weeks later, Sands was dead, wasted to a skeleton at 27. “Hunger” isn’t a biography of Sands, but it’s a probing, clinical, oddly beautiful examination of one man’s decision to die, to face the moment we all must on his own terms. Not rated. 1 hour, 36 minutes. Colin Covert, Star Tribune Minneapolis
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