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Yves Saint Laurent is a 2014 French biographical drama film directed by Jalil Lespert and co-written with Jacques Fieschi, Jérémie Guez and Marie-Pierre Huster. The film focuses on the relationship between designer Yves Saint Laurent and his homosexual partner Pierre Berge in 20 years, since they met in 1957 in the Christian Dior fashion show.The ups and downs in the career of Yves Saint Laurent attach and can not detachable from Pierre Berge.
6 November 1978, Uccle, Belgium
4 September 1986, Montréal, Québec, Canada
15 November 1983, Paris, France
April 24, 2015
If design is a fine art (YSL was the subject of a Met show), then this is a designer's "Lust for Life".August 15, 2014
Does a film with haute couture as its heart guarantee an elegant cinematic experience? In the case of Yves Saint Laurent, a biopic about the legendary French couturier, the answer is a tired non.August 15, 2014
Despite being sumptuously shot and competently assembled, it provides no real insight into the tortured mind of its subject or the creative process in general.August 29, 2014
This glitzy biopic of the renowned French fashion designer doesn't offer much insight into its subject or milieu.July 31, 2014
A visually sumptuous - and perhaps languidly paced - tale that immerses the viewer in a deeply atmospheric world.August 28, 2014
The resulting bio-drama feels like any other generic formula self-destructive artist tale, one that captures the surface of Saint Laurent, but not his essence.August 15, 2014
One of the issues is that Lespert provides little insight into Saint Laurent's creative genius.October 02, 2014
stylish-boy, is it stylish-but lacking in substance.October 10, 2014
Pierre Niney Niney has a strong, yet fragile presence, as if he's in a Woody Allen film being directed by the ghost of Anthony Minghella.August 28, 2014
The film takes on a dour note as way too much time is spent on Saint Laurent's drunken antics. He comes across as sullen and not very likable. This may be true to the man, but what of his other side?May 25, 2016
It seems like Bertrand Bonello asumes the spectator knows every detail of the complicated life Yves Saint Laurent lived. [Full review in Spanish]