Yves Saint Laurent (film)

Not to be confused with Saint Laurent (film).

Yves Saint Laurent
File:Yves Saint Laurent film.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jalil Lespert
Produced by	Yannick Bolloré Wassim Béji
Written by	Jacques Fieschi Jalil Lespert Jérémie Guez Marie-Pierre Huster
Based on	Yves Saint Laurent by Laurence Benaïm
Starring	Pierre Niney Guillaume Gallienne Charlotte Le Bon Laura Smet Marie de Villepin Xavier Lafitte Nikolai Kinski
Music by	Ibrahim Maalouf
Cinematography	Thomas Hardmeier
Edited by	François Gédigier
Production company	Canal+ SND Films Wy Productions
Distributed by	SND Films
Release dates	8 January 2014 (2014-01-08)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	France
Language	French English Russian Arabic Japanese
Budget	$14,7 million
Box office	$31,523,083

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 is based on the life of Yves Saint Laurent from 1958. The film stars Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, Marie de Villepin, Xavier Lafitte and Nikolai Kinski. The film opened the Panorama Special section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival at the renovated Zoo Palast, with director, cast and Pierre Bergé in attendance. The film received seven nominations at the 40th César Awards, winning Best Actor for Pierre Niney.

Plot

Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé promote the French fashion industry and stay friends against all odds.

Cast

• Pierre Niney as Yves Saint Laurent
• Guillaume Gallienne as Pierre Bergé
• Charlotte Le Bon as Victoire Doutreleau
• Laura Smet as Loulou de la Falaise
• Marie de Villepin as Betty Catroux
• Nikolai Kinski as Karl Lagerfeld
• Xavier Lafitte as Jacques De Bascher
• Ruben Alves as Fernando Sánchez
• Marianne Basler as Lucienne Saint-Laurent
• Astrid Whettnall as Yvonne De Peyerimhoff
• Anne Alvaro as Marie-Louise Bousquet
• Michèle Garcia as Raymonde Zehnacker
• Patrice Thibaud as Christian Dior
• Amira Casar as Anne-Marie Munoz
• Alexandre Steiger as Jean-Pierre Debord
• Jean-Édouard Bodziak as Bernard Buffet

Production

In March 2013, The Weinstein Company acquired the rights to the film to distribute in the United States, while Entertainment One holds U.K., Australian and Benelux distribution rights, including Canadian distribution rights.

Filming

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Director Jalil Lespert and lead actor Pierre Niney at the film's premiere in Paris.

Principal photography began in June 2013. Part of the filming was done with Bergé, who sent "out models on the runway for a reconstitution of Saint Laurent’s famous Opéra Ballets Russes collection of 1976, which was filmed at the fashions show’s original venue, the Westin hotel (formerly known as the InterContinental.)" Bergé’s foundation loaned the film "77 vintage outfits from its archives and allowed Lespert to film certain scenes at its headquarters on Avenue Marceau in Paris." Bergé "praised Lespert’s film—based largely on a Laurence Benaïm biography of Saint Laurent and Bergé’s reminiscences in his book Letters to Yves—for showing the designer’s demons." Bergé said "...there are details I don’t like, but that is of no importance whatsoever. You have to take the movie as it is—as a whole."

Reception

Critical response

Yves Saint Laurent received mixed reviews. On film aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a rating of 43%, with an average score of 5.2/10, based on reviews from 60 critics. The site's consensus reads "While it boasts its share of fine performances, Yves Saint Laurent is also disappointingly bland and formulaic — especially given its subject's dazzling reputation." On another website, Metacritic, it has a score of 51/100 (indicating "mixed or average"), based on reviews from 25 critics.

External links

• Yves Saint Laurent at IMDb
• Yves Saint Laurent at Box Office Mojo
• Yves Saint Laurent at Rotten Tomatoes
• Yves Saint Laurent at Metacritic