Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play From humble beginnings to the heights of society this is the astonishing story of Gabrielle Chanel the legendary couturier who became a timeless symbol of success freedom & style Orphaned at a young age Coco Chanel was raised in a convent school where she learned to embroider & sew Bored & dissatisfied with the living she could earn as a seamstress she began singing in backstreet cafes & bars where she attracted the attention of etienne Balsan a rich gentleman who immediately became intrigued by the stubborn striking young ingenue Swept up in her rich lover&s world Coco soon drew the eyes of society towards her with her unique elegant style in a time of flamboyance & excess Just as controversial was the passionate love affair in which she became embroiled which shattered the conventions of her society
- a love so dangerous & forbidden it threatened to destroy her Also featuring Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) & Alessandro Nivola (Mansfield Park The Eye) Coco Before Chanel stars Audrey Tautou (Amelie The Da Vinci Code) as Coco the woman who dared to be different & became an icon! Coco Before Chanel La Rencontre (" The Meeting")
Includes: interviews with director Anne Fontaine & star Audrey Tautou The Making Of Coco Before Chanel Commentary by Director & Writer Anne Fontaine Actors Audrey Tautou Alessandro Nivola Emmanuelle Devos Marie Gillain Benoît Poelvoorde & Roch Leibovici Director Anne Fontaine Certificate 12 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen Languages French Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 50 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From humble beginnings to the heights of society this is the astonishing story of Gabrielle Chanel the legendary couturier who became a timeless symbol of success freedom & style Orphaned at a young age Coco Chanel was raised in a convent school where she learned to embroider & sew Bored & dissatisfied with the living she could earn as a seamstress she began singing in backstreet cafes & bars where she attracted the attention of etienne Balsan a rich gentleman who immediately became intrigued by the stubborn striking young ingenue Swept up in her rich lover&s world Coco soon drew the eyes of society towards her with her unique elegant style in a time of flamboyance & excess Just as controversial was the passionate love affair in which she became embroiled which shattered the conventions of her society
- a love so dangerous & forbidden it threatened to destroy her Also featuring Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) & Alessandro Nivola (Mansfield Park The Eye) Coco Before Chanel stars Audrey Tautou (Amelie The Da Vinci Code) as Coco the woman who dared to be different & became an icon!
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Please note this is a region 2 Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region Free Blu-ray Player in order to play Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music Miguel (voice of Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt) Desperate to prove his talent Miguel finds himself in the colourful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events Along the way he meets charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael Garcia Bernal) & together they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel&s family history Directors Lee Unkrich Adrian Molina Writers Adrian Molina Matthew Aldrich Producers Darla K Anderson Language English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 3 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) was one of Europe&s most promising new composers when in 1913 he premiered his ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (aka The Rite of Spring); the piece proved to be wildly controversial & the audience at the Paris debut was vocal in their disgust ruining Stravinsky&s reputation for years One patron who did like the performance was Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis) who was already among Europe&s most celebrated fashion designers Seven years later Chanel encounters Stravinsky at a party & learns that the composer is penniless & without a place to live Chanel befriends him & allows him to move into her summer home in the country along with his wife Catherine (Elena Morozova) & their four children Chanel is nursing a broken heart after the recent death of her boyfriend & what began as an act of compassion for a fellow artist turns into an affair of the heart as Chanel & Stravinsky become lovers much to the chagrin of the sickly Catherine ...

Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) was one of Europe's most promising new composers when in 1913 he premiered his ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (aka The Rite of Spring); the piece proved to be wildly controversial & the audience at the Paris debut was vocal in their disgust ruining Stravinsky's reputation for years One patron who did like the performance was Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis) who was already among Europe's most celebrated fashion designers Seven years later Chanel encounters Stravinsky at a party & learns that the composer is penniless & without a place to live Chanel befriends him & allows him to move into her summer home in the country along with his wife Catherine (Elena Morozova) & their four children Chanel is nursing a broken heart after the recent death of her boyfriend & what began as an act of compassion for a fellow artist turns into an affair of the heart as Chanel & Stravinsky become lovers much to the chagrin of the sickly Catherine ...

Part of the bestselling Little People BIG DREAMS series this board book version of Coco Chanel tells the inspiring story of the most famous fashion designer in the world 24 pages Sanchez Vegara Maria Isabel ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music Miguel (voice of Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt) Desperate to prove his talent Miguel finds himself in the colourful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events Along the way he meets charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael Garcia Bernal) & together they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel&s family history Directors Lee Unkrich Adrian Molina Writers Adrian Molina Matthew Aldrich Producers Darla K Anderson Language English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a popular well-off man develops a heart condidtion his friends soon find that he has become unbearable ...

Tracklist A1 When You Said Goodbye 241 A2 I Do Love You 318 A3 I Don't Wanna Go 249 A4 Long Time Coming 404 A5 Tennessee Hollow 230 B6 If You Ain't Mine 335 B7 You're Calling Me 247 B8 Tiny Pieces Vocals
- John Mc Cauley Written-By
- Tommy Stinson 432 B9 This House Ain't A Home 206 B10 Dead River 343

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Chocolate has long been a favorite indulgence But behind every chocolate bar we unwrap there is a world of power struggles & political maneuvering over its most important ingredient cocoa In this incisive book Kristy Leissle reveals how cocoa which brings pleasure & wealth to relatively few depends upon an extensive global trade system that exploits the labor of five million growers as well as countless other workers & vulnerable groups The reality of this dramatic inequity she explains is often masked by the social cultural emotional & economic values humans have placed upon cocoa from its earliest cultivation in Mesoamerica to the present day Tracing the cocoa value chain from farms in Africa Asia Latin America & the Caribbean through to chocolate factories in Europe & North America Leissle shows how cocoa has been used as a political tool to wield power over others Cocoa's politicization is not however limitless it happens within botanical parameters set by the crop itself & the material reality of its transport storage & manufacture into chocolate As calls for justice in the industry have grown louder Leissle reveals the possibilities for & constraints upon realizing a truly sustainable & fulfilling livelihood for cocoa growers & for keeping the world full of chocolate ...