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By Ina Warren

MONTREAL (CP) — Chan- el Solitaire sounds rather like the name of a new perfume created for loners.

Actually, it’s the title of a forthcoming movie, the first ever, about the late Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, legendary ar- biter of modern fashion and founder of a multi-million- dollar perfume empire named for her superstitious belief in the number five.

Playing Chanel is pretty petite French actress Maric- France Pisier who happens to be the same height as was the tiny Coco. Well-known for her roles in Truffaut's Love at Twenty, Stolen Kisses and Love on the Run, Pisier is probably better remembered by North Americans for her comic role ‘as the bitchy brunette wife in Cousin, Cou-

sine.

Chanel Solitaire’s internat- ional cast also lists Karen Black, Brigitte Fossey, Eng- land's Timothy Dalton and

CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 21, 1981

Chanel Solitaire’

Rutger Hauer, the young Dutch actor who appeared in Sylvester Stallone’s Night- hawks.

Although Chanel Solitaire was made in France by some of that country's top cinema talent as a French-English co- production, North American aucionces will get to see it first

FRANCE ‘TOO RISKY’

“It's too risky to open the film in France,"’ says the movie’s Canadian director, George Kaczender. “You never know how the French will react to a film that is made about a French person- ality in English by an Amer- ican.

Also, Chanel wasn’t @ dar- ling in France. She wasn't a patriot,

“She always preferred England and hated French politics and the French.

“On the other had,’’ inter- posed the pipe-smoking di- rector with an arch smile, ‘‘if the movie is successful in

New York and Los Angeles, the French can't say no,"

The movie's producer is American independent Larry Spangler, who was obliged to wage a lengthy court battle over copyright of the name Chanel in the movie's title. Spangler won; the Swiss con- glomerate which owns the House of Chanel lost.

Kaczender, best knows for In Praise. of Older Women, the highest-grossing Canad- ian movie of 1978, is Hungar- ian-born director with a long list of Canadian screen cred- its.

Now the 48-year-old direc- tor is back in Montreal after almost a year France making Chanel Solitaire.

It's move lavish than any- thing I've ever done and 1 think it's far better,

“1 worked with a subject that easily lends itself to dramatization and the setting and the period is also visually beautiful; the hats, the full dresses — the style Chanel demolished.’’

Chanel died in 1971 at the age of 88 while working on her new spring collection, refining the look of the 20th- century woman she had cre- ated in 1918,

And for today’s moderns tt might be interesting to note just a few of the fashion trands Chanel started: the sweater look, pants, dinner

pyjamas, the trench coat (she wore the first), the little black dress, the blazer and irreg- ular hemlines.

She also made it chic to have a ‘suntan, wear bangs and enormous shell-rimmed eyeglasses and mix real jew- els with fake.

The subject of Chanel stirs

so much interest in France, °

Kaczender says, that he was able to get France's top cinema talent to work on the project.

The is by Julian

s has international cast

movie takes place in the first three decades of the 20th century and deals only with Chanel’s early life.

It begins with her child- hood in an orphanage — the influence, say fashion histor- ians, behind her high-fashion

“poor little girl’? look. It traces her conquest of the world of haute couture and, of course, her famous roman- ces.

; photography was Ricardo Or-

ahead that she was going to do the role and did a tremen- dous amount of research on Chanel,"

The movie's over-all design is by Jacques Saulnier, the production designer of Mon Oncle d’Amerique and cos- tumes are by Rosine de La- marre, who worked with the legendary French director Rene Clair. The director of

Tuos.-Sat.

Pizzas: Eat-In who came to the

bout her work, Chanel was

More, an Englishman whose screen credits include the musical Irma La Douce. DEPICTS EARLY LIFE Shot in Paris and the chic resort town of Deauville, the

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“In this film she demon- strated a much wider emo- tional range. Everyone on the set was surprised at how brilliant she was.

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It was decided to hold a tea bake sale and white elephant at the Senior Citizens’ Centre on Nov. 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. Admission will be 75 cents per person. Members were elected to different positions for the tea and door prizes will be drawn and posters posted.

The date for the first Annual Old Time Fiddlers Kootenay No. 9 contest ten- tatively will be held at the Arena Complex on March 27,

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President Ivan Ratcliff and his wife attended a provincial executive meeting held at Vernon on Sept. 27, and gave areport to the local club. The president won second place in the senior division of the fiddle contest at Vernon, and Tony Smandych won fourth place in the limited division.

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A two-day education con- ‘ference focussing on ways to foster better understanding of cultural and ethnic groups will be held in Castlegar this Thursday and Friday.

The public is welcome to attend the opening ceremon- des at the Brilliant Cultural ‘Centre on Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. which will fea- ture a keynote Address by

enays, to attend workshops.

The conference will con- clude with a banquet on Fri- day evening — a smorgas- bord which will include samp- lings of foods from many dif- ferent countries. .

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h thon the topic of multiculturalism. The USCC Women's Asso- ciation will serve refresh- ments. K

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cation. ig his address will be an evening of ethnic entertainment, including vo- cal, instrumental, and dancé groups.

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loney is no object for some residents in this Alberta city when it comes'to buying fur- niture, says designer David McElheran.

Customers in McElheran's store, David's Interiors, re- cently paid $23,000 for a 7.2-metre curved sofa and $13,000 for a clock to spruce up their living room. The items were from the United States and subject to import duty, foreign exchange and

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just the affluent who buy” expensive accessories for the home. “Some may take a few years to build up a collec- tion.”

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Contrary to what Sam Bondar recently had to say about city residents, Mc- Elheran and fellow furniture vendors Ron Baltzan and Ian Brown say Edmontonians’ sophistication knows no bounds.

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20 years ago when he was in high school. David's Interiors handles a variety of items — from silk floral arrangements to grand- father clocks — for famous as well as obscure elients. McElheran said the design trade — he is careful to dis- tinguish it from decorating — is changing direction. It no longer is the sole province of the established. as high as

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