As a married guy with two kids and about as much fashion sense as a color-blind slug, it's unlikely that I would have EVER see a film about Coco Chanel. But yesterday at 5:15PM I grew weary of my Mac and had a few hours to kill before meeting a bunch of dads whose children all go to The Blue Man Creativity Center for a dinner date.   Getting in was a challenge as I had somehow been given a children's ticket and while I may often act the part, I no longer look "12 and under." And despite my pleading, the ticket lady made me go back to the ticket booth and get the right one - even though the film was set to start that very minute and now there was a line. Oy!   Once seated I realized that films these days come with a 10-15 minute buffer: trailers (ads, really) for other films based haplessly upon the person they think you are because you're watching a film about Coco Chanel. What I gained was not so much a list of other films I'm now dying to see but an understanding that I need never be on time for a movie ever again.   The Angelika Film Center was dark but I have a strong suspicion that I was one of the only if not THE only guy with two kids in attendance. Normally I would feel a bit self-conscious because (a) I always feel a bit self-conscious, (b) I was there alone (i.e., not dragged there by a wife or girlfriend) and (c) it was a film about Coco Chanel...   As for the film itself (he says nine sentences later) it was good. It was essentially a "coming-of-age story" where a woman slowly buy surely finds her way in the world attached to a "love story" where a woman so long deprived of love actually, for a short time, finds it. She's clever, witty, ambitious, sad, head-strong, and a supremely talented visionary; most everyone she meets comes to see this and, perhaps out of respect for this lethal bag of traits, helps her move forward.   Audrey Tatou is Coco and is, IMHO, a great actress on a bad day; in this she is superb. She becomes her character in a manner that matches what Daniel Day Lewis or Robert Downey Jr. do with their characters - no easy task. The film takes its own time which creates an interesting empathy for how long Coco had to wait before becoming the force behind Chanel.  Those she meets and loves in her own way are fun and far more than distractions; most everyone has a meaningful raison d'etre.   At the end, when it's clear what her future will be and, moreover, what she will bring to the future, the audience can't but smile. For two hours we've had front-row seats into the life of a woman who re-define fashion for over half a century. I felt the film to be inspirational and even though my own sense of style will always require the direction of my fashion-forward wife, I left the theatre full of hope.  If there's a lesson for parents it might be this: don't send your children away to an orphanage; do encourage their talents (no matter what they might be) and remember to give them lots of love so that they themselves may know it and give it back when it's their turn...