So says Balsan (Benoît Poelvoorde) to Coco (Audrey Tautou) after she emerges from the guest room, where she has been extending her stay at his country mansion, to attend his costume party, a party where Coco made some of the costumes, including her own -- that of the bumpkin boy. All this from Anne Fontaine's Coco Avant Chanel (2009), a film I was getting into until the 70 minute mark, when the DVD started breaking down, eventually freezing at the moment Coco sees a fisherman on the beach (her first visit to the ocean) wearing a wide-necked, horizontal blue striped t-shirt. I wonder what became of this Coco? What Fontaine made of her? The utterly wonderful Audrey Tautou.
