Saint Laurent
Synopsis
In January 1958, a young Yves Saint Laurent was called upon to oversee the legendary Paris fashion house established by Christian Dior. All eyes turned to this very young assistant, as he presented his first collection and instantly ascended to the heights of haute couture’s elite class.
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Awards & Festivals
Cannes Film Festival
2014 | Special Mention: Palm Dog
César Awards
2015 | Winner: Best Costume Design
2015 | 9 nominations including: Best Actor
Prix Louis Delluc
2014 | Nominee: Best Film
Lumiere Awards
2015 | Winner: Best Actor
2015 | 4 nominations including: CST Award
It features Bonello’s finest auto-critque as the Saint Laurent showcase pieces of couture clothing are paraded before the camera on one-half of a split screen. On the other side is revolution and violence. The two inform each other, but they can never be equal.
Scout Tafoya
October 18, 2019
French writer-director Bertrand Bonello is a master at setting a mood and evoking how events play out in memory, though his willful detachment from his subjects makes him an acquired taste… Like Bonello’s House of Pleasures (2011), this takes place mainly in confined interiors and divulges tantalizingly little about how the characters relate to the outside world.
Ben Sachs
May 27, 2015
A shape-shifting journey through the life and career of Yves Saint Laurent, it probably won’t teach you anything particularly new about the famous designer… Instead, Bonello gives us fragmented glimpses of key events in YSL’s life — all in an effort to capture something ineffable about the man. I knew almost nothing about fashion going in, and I think I knew even less coming out. But I was still awed by the film.
Bilge Ebiri
May 09, 2015
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