''We know that Coco Chanel, in what many people call real life, was a tough and ruthless little bird: she basically dumped her past, paid off her brothers to go away and shush, was merciless in her relationships with people who might help her on her way, and was terrified at some poor, sad level of herself that she might be found out. Very little of that comes out in this film, which chooses to play Chanel’s complexity as eccentricity.''