Yves Saint Laurent

2014
15
1h 46m

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6.2/10

13K

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Pierre Niney in Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

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 Berge.

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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.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.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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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

13K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 9 nominations total

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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

Patrice Thibaud

Christian Dior

Gérard Lartigau

M. Boussac

Michèle Garcia

Raymonde Zehnacker

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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.

Gordon-11
Mar 18, 2015
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Yves Saint Laurent: I'm Not That Nice (UK)

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Yves Saint Laurent: I'm Not That Nice (UK)

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Yves Saint Laurent: I'm Yves Saint Laurent (US)

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Yves Saint Laurent: Haircut (Us)

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Yves Saint Laurent: I Like It A Lot (UK)

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Trivia
The Yves Saint-Laurent foundation lent the filmmakers 77 actual pieces from their archive for use in the film. The actors and models who wear these authentic Yves Saint Laurent clothes had to wear special underwear underneath the outfits, so that the clothes never touched their skin. Conservators from the foundation were present to make sure the historic, irreplaceable garments were correctly handled and stored.

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.