Westhampton Beach - As part of its "Finest in World Cinema" series, the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will screen director Jan Kounen's sumptuous re-creation of the mad affair between two of the century's most iconic figures 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky' on Tuesday, August 31, Wednesday, September 1 and Thursday, September 2 at 8 p.m. in the Mollin Parnis Auditorium.

Andrew Botsford, Southampton Press Associate Editor of the Arts & Living section, will introduce the summer films each Tuesday Night, and lead an informal discussion, with a special guest, following the film, as part of the "Tuesday Night at the Movies with Andrew & Friends" series.

It's Paris, 1913. Igor Stravinsky is premiering "The Rite Of Spring" at the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées. Coco Chanel attends the premiere and is mesmerized, but the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical - the enraged audience boos and jeers. A near riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable. Seven years later, now rich, respected and successful, Chanel meets Stravinsky again - a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris after the Russian Revolution. The attraction between them is immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her villa in Garches so that he will be able to work, and he moves in straight away, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins.

The production of "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" had the support of Karl Lagerfeld and CHANEL who have generously made available their archives and collections. CHANEL lent several original garments and accessories to be worn by Mademoiselle Anna Mouglalis in the role of Mademoiselle Chanel, and Karl Lagerfeld specially created a 'timeless' suit and an embroidered evening dress for the scene recreating the legendary and scandalous 1913 performance of "The Rite Of Spring." In order to recreate the world of Coco Chanel as faithfully as possible, CHANEL also granted the film makers full access to its archives and to Coco Chanel's celebrated apartment at 31, rue Cambon, Paris.

"Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" is in French, Russian and English, Rated, and 115 minutes.

For more information on this film go to www.sonyclassics.com/cocochanelandigorstravinsky.

Tickets: $10 for adults, $7 for students/seniors, and $3 for WHBPAC Film Society members, and can be purchased three ways: Go to www.whbpac.org, Box Office at 631-288-1500, or at 76 Main Street, Westhampton Beach, (seven days a week, 12 noon to 8 p.m. and later on show nights).