Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

Name: Yves Saint Laurent
Director: Jalil Lespert
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 2014-01-08
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet

R | 106 min | Biography, Drama

A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint-Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Bergé.

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Pierre Niney

Yves Saint Laurent

(as Pierre Niney de la Comédie-Française)
Guillaume Gallienne

Pierre Bergé

(as Guillaume Gallienne de la Comédie Française)
Charlotte Le Bon

Victoire Doutreleau
Laura Smet

Loulou de la Falaise
Marie de Villepin

Betty Catroux
Nikolai Kinski

Karl Lagerfeld
Ruben Alves

Fernando Sanchez
Astrid Whettnall

Yvonne de Peyerimhoff
Marianne Basler

Lucienne Saint-Laurent
Jean-Édouard Bodziak

Bernard Buffet
Adeline D'Hermy

Anne-Marie Munoz

(as Adeline D'Hermy de la Comédie-Française)
Xavier Lafitte

Jacques de Bascher
Alexandre Steiger

Jean-Pierre Debord
Philippe Morier-Genoud

Jean Cocteau
Anne Alvaro

Marie-Louise Bousquet

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Awards

2 wins & 8 nominations.

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19 March 2015 | Gordon-11

Skimming stones

This film tells the life of the great French fashion designer, Yves Saint Laurent, concentrating on his youthful but turbulent years in Paris and Morocco.

"Yves Saint Laurent" has certainly a lot of beautiful clothes and beautiful people, but it's not enough to be a good biographical film. The story is presented as a recollection from Mr Berge's perspective, with him occasionally narrating to fill in the gaps. The story runs too fast for viewers to gain understanding with the eventful life of Yves Saint Laurent, and the story does not dive deep enough for any emotional connection to occur. Events are not presented in an engaging manner. I guess that's a necessary evil for a biographical film because compressing years into less than two hours is not an easy job. Skimming stones is quite expected.

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Pierre Niney revealed in an interview with Gentleman's Journal that in one scene shot at the real Yves Saint Laurent atelier, he is holding the real Saint Laurent's pen and walking stick.

Quotes

Yves Saint Laurent: I don't fear critics.

Goofs

YSL's black leather Beat collection is shown as having been created in 1964 in the film, suggesting YSL was a leader of the Mod look of the mid 1960s, but in fact his Beat collection was done in 1960 and was too youthful for Dior clientele at the time and the main reason YSL was fired from Dior.