Strange subject matter for the Dutch-born French filmmaker Jan Kounen whose shamanic western Blueberry is spoken of in hushed tones and compared to Jodorowsky's El Topo. In this examination of the affair between Coco Chanel and Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, Kounen takes a clear decision to avoid grand melodrama. The film begins with the famous performance of The Rite of Spring in Paris 1913 when the audience went ballistic and the gendarmes had to be called to stem the riot. Chanel attended the performance and remained obsessed by Stravinsky from then on, but it was only 7 years later when he is impoverished and in exile with a consumptive wife, four children and a menagerie of birds that she, immensely fêted in the fashion world, takes in the entire family, birds included.