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Not requisite “BITCH LOOK:” Audrey Tautou at NYC premiere of Coco before Chanel It’s been almost a decade since Amelie. Somehow the ghost of that pixie played by Audrey Tautou, obsessed with a boy she sees in a restaurant and who steals her father’s garden gnome, persists. This ghost also creates a comical turn for Tautou in her latest flick, Coco Before Chanel , by director Anne Fontaine. The film opens today in the USA. You can almost burst out laughing as the camera zeros in on Tautou’s concentrated visage as she stares at the white cuffs of the nuns at the orphanage. Or how about when she runs her small hands over a cashmere sweater and shouts, “Oh, what is this fabric?” The biggest ridicule rests with her finding inspiration in fishermen as they pull their nets: “Those jerseys, the way they hang, so simple!” Not that she herself is a simple actress. The prejudice rests in her physical form. Anthony Lane, the theat...