There are no proofs Stravinsky and Chanel ever were lovers. But surely he and his family lived in her house some years after the "Rite of Spring" disaster in 1913, there the audience was in total uproar from the radicalism of Stravinsky's music.
Chanel is here shown as a heartless people's collector. Strainsky lets himself be part of it, but not fully, since he has his integrity in his music.
You would perhaps think that Mads Mikkelsen was too handsome to play the rather ugly Stravinsky, but Mikkelsen is unable to give a bad performance. The film is better than you may have feared and suspected.
Chanel is here shown as a heartless people's collector. Strainsky lets himself be part of it, but not fully, since he has his integrity in his music.
You would perhaps think that Mads Mikkelsen was too handsome to play the rather ugly Stravinsky, but Mikkelsen is unable to give a bad performance. The film is better than you may have feared and suspected.