Nearly a year after its premiere at cannes in 2014, bertrand bonellos film saint laurent, a biopic on the life of the famed french designer, comes out today in the u. Yves saint laurents life from 1967 to 1976, during which time the famed. The moment was too long and being a fashion lover yves saint laurent obsessed nerd his moments were inaccurate. Berge gets his revenge onpoor yves mother who i am sure was as tough as nails but its unnecessary to dwell on it. Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the bertrand bonello directed movie via subscription can be. The film was a bit shallow in areas mostly where jacques left. With gaspard ulliel, jeremie renier, louis garrel, lea seydoux. Have a look below to see the official soundtrack list for the 2015 biography movie, saint laurent, including sc. The film centers on saint laurents life from 1967 to 1976, during which.
Bertrand bonello s saint laurent is a beautiful film about being lost by bilge ebiri bertrand bonello s saint laurent is a beautiful movie about being lost, but dont be surprised if you. Need to watch saint laurent in the comfort of your own home. Pierre berge, yves saint laurents partner both in business and, sometimes. This movie also misses a few important people in yves saint laurent s life, so i would recommend watching another movie or reading about his life before watching this one. Saint laurent is a 2014 french biography drama film cowritten and directed by bertrand bonello, and starring gaspard ulliel as yves saint laurent.
More dutiful than elegant, yves saint laurent is one of two new dramas about that beatified french fashion designer. The supporting cast features lea seydoux, amira casar, aymeline valade and helmut berger. Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the bertrand bonellodirected movie via subscription can be. Sep 22, 2014 saint laurent soundtrack from 2014, composed by various artists, bertrand bonello. Bertrand bonellos saint laurent is a beautiful movie about being lost, but dont be surprised if you feel a little lost yourself watching it. How bertrand bonello did a fashion legend justice with. Yves saint laurent, a biopic from jalil lespert the. Avec gaspard ulliel, jeremie renier, louis garrel, lea seydoux, amira casar. Saint laurent 2014, directed by bertrand bonello movie. May 07, 2015 saint laurent, a radical man of fashion bertrand bonellos portrait of famed designer yves saint laurent is cannily edited so that the film recalls the designers impeccably cut styles. Bertrand bonello, the director of saint laurent, discusses a sequence from the film featuring gaspard ulliel and valeria bruni tedeschi.
Explore the mind of a creative genius, the intricacies that turned the haute couture label into a worldwide phenomenon and the glamour and decadence that followed saint laurents footsteps of fame and fortune. It was screened in the directors fortnight section at the 2019 cannes film festival. Ultimately hollow as director bertrand bonello keeps his subject. When the producers approached you with the prospect of making the film, what was your initial attraction to tackling yves saint laurent as a. The other feature, bertrand bonellos saint laurent, had its.
Saint laurent is an imperfect but often poetic take on. This movie also misses a few important people in yves saint laurents life, so i would recommend watching another movie or reading about his life before watching this one. Zombi child is a 2019 french drama film directed by bertrand bonello. Not to be confused with the recent yves saint laurent biopic, which just got a u.
May 06, 2015 bertrand bonello explores the visual, romantic, and viscontian facets of legendary fashion designer yves saint laurents gaspard ulliel life and career in his unconventional biopic, saint. Yves saint laurent, a biopic from jalil lespert the new. Have a look below to see the official soundtrack list for the 2015. Bonellos film covers less chronological ground than yves saint laurent but goes a little harder on the hedonism, as youd expect from the heedless director of house of pleasures and the. Saint laurent, a vibrant, buzzy biopic of the visionary french designer, plays like an extended high fashion ad campaign, prioritizing corporeal movement aided and abetted by shiny textures, music. Bertrand bonello explores the visual, romantic, and viscontian facets of legendary fashion designer yves saint laurents gaspard ulliel life and career in his unconventional biopic, saint.
Yves saint laurent s life from 1967 to 1976, during which time the famed fashion designer was at the peak of his career. Yves saint laurent film pierre berge ban biopic jalil. Saint laurent 2015 stream and watch online moviefone. Explore the mind of a creative genius, the intricacies that turned the haute couture label into a worldwide phenomenon and the glamour and decadence that followed. With pierre niney, guillaume gallienne, charlotte le bon, laura smet. First trailer for bertrand bonellos saint laurent with.
Saint laurent sl183 001 black betty visor sunglasses lens category 3 size 63mm. Saint laurent, bertrand bonellos antibiopic on the fashion icon. May 08, 2015 a woman undergoes a style and attitude tranformation in this scene from saint laurent, bertrand bonellos look at the light and dark sides of the french designer yves saint laurent. Saint laurent soundtrack from 2014, composed by various artists, bertrand bonello.
Lhomme yves saint laurent by yves saint laurent for men. Bonello s saint laurent, which has just been selected to represent france in next years acadamy awards foreign language section, is a darker, more complicated, stylish film than lesperts. Released by europacorp in 2014 containing music from saint laurent 2015. Yves saint laurents life from 1967 to 1976, during which time the famed fashion designer was at the peak of his career.
The supporting cast features lea seydoux, amira casar, aymeline valade, and helmut berger. It seems like bertrand bonello asumes the spectator knows every detail of the complicated life yves saint laurent lived. Ultimately hollow as director bertrand bonello keeps his subject somewhat emotionally at bay, the movie is also at times quite addictivemuch like opium, the controversial name of saint laurents famous scent. Berge gets his revenge onpoor yves mother who i am sure was as tough as nails but its unnecessary to dwell on it so much and the smallest details are wrong. 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. His exit from the movie shouldve been played out in scene. Jun 25, 2014 more dutiful than elegant, yves saint laurent is one of two new dramas about that beatified french fashion designer. Saint laurent movie anatomy of a scene w director bertrand. Bertrand bonello was born on september 11, 1968 in nice, alpesmaritimes, france. In the penultimate scene of bertrand bonellos saint laurent, the year is 1977 and a group of french. How bertrand bonello did a fashion legend justice with saint. Saint laurent, beautiful people, high fashion and career.
Bonello discussed the film and his approach to the material. May 15, 2015 saint laurent soundtrack list 2014 complete tracklist, all songs played in the movie and in the trailer, who sings them, soundtrack details and the entire music playlist of the album. This is written and directed by bertrand bonello the house of tolerance, the pornographer, a less conservative filmmaker than lespert. Saint laurent official us trailer bertrand bonello youtube. Gus and i had got on well on the set of his segment of paris, je taime.
Saint laurent soundtrack list 2014 complete tracklist, all songs played in the movie and in the trailer, who sings them, soundtrack details and the entire music playlist of the album. The film centers on saint laurents life from 1967 to 1976, during which time. May 08, 2015 this film by bertrand bonello offers an allaccess look into the designer yves saint laurent at work and afterhours with a perspective that is at once intimate and detached. Latest saint laurent film is a portrait of the times, not the artist. We continue our annual cheat sheet for the cannes competition, with a look at the second and starrier of 2014s two yves saint laurent biopics. An interview with gaspard ulliel were you interested in yves saint laurent before bertrand bonello asked you to play him in this film. This film by bertrand bonello offers an allaccess look into the designer yves saint laurent at work and afterhours with a perspective that is at. Yves saint laurent was said to smoke as many as seven packs of cigarettes. May 07, 2015 which yves saint laurent biopic should you watch. Gaspard ulliel on becoming saint laurent and kissing louis garrel.
I gave this movie were all for helmut berger as the ageing yves saint laurent. Bertrand bonellos saint laurent is a beautiful film about. Ultimately hollow as director bertrand bonello keeps his subject somewhat emotionally at bay, the movie is. This film by bertrand bonello offers an allaccess look into the designer yves saint laurent at work and afterhours with a perspective that is at once intimate and detached. If i hadnt watched another movie about yves saint laurent before this one, im not sure i would have understand who the characters were and what was going on. Director jalil lesperts yves saint laurent falls regrettably far down the rabbit hole of private melodrama. But its exploration of saint laurents talent, tastes. As a diversion, it isnt exactly good for you but it does provide entertainment. Saint laurent is more interested in desire than talent, although there are just enough scenes of sketches, designs, fittings and catwalks to honor that side of the man.
Apr 29, 2014 we continue our annual cheat sheet for the cannes competition, with a look at the second and starrier of 2014s two yves saint laurent biopics. A woman undergoes a style and attitude tranformation in this scene from saint laurent, bertrand bonellos look at the light and dark sides of the french designer yves saint laurent. A late scene shows an extreme closeup of the face of a model, who, in appeasing yves saint laurents gaspard ulliel newfound desire for thin eyebrows, has each of. It so happens that gus van sant planned to make a film about him at one point. Saint laurent is a 2014 french biographical drama film cowritten and directed by bertrand bonello, and starring gaspard ulliel as yves saint laurent, jeremie. The battle of the yves sanit laurent movies was won at cannes in may when bertrand bonellos vision of a raw, sexual, hardpartying ysl hit the screen. Fresh off his emotionally extravagant biopic of fashion designer yves saint laurent, bonello has returned with another film about the seductive power of surfaces.
Feb 01, 2016 a song from the biographical film saint laurent, directed and scored by bertrand bonello. Dive into the color and lush textures of the incredible life of fashion icon yves saint laurent. Also i did not care for helmet bergers yves saint laurent. Apr 08, 20 two films based on the life of yves saint laurent are both still set for production later this year despite one facing criticism from the late designers close companion and business partner, pierre berge. Nearly a year after its premiere at cannes in 2014, bertrand bonello s film saint laurent, a biopic on the life of the famed french designer, comes out today in the u.
With his previous project, he presented that idea as his subject with this one, he sublimates it directly into his style. That seems to be the theme of saint laurent, an epiclength biopic not to be confused with last years yves saint laurent, a briefer and less juicy authorized account about the enigmatic master of hautecouture fabulousness who died from a brain tumor in 2008 at age 71. Bonellos film covers more decades in the iconic fashion. Tom ford on ralph lauren, how yves saint laurent was evil duration. Saint laurent, a radical man of fashion bertrand bonellos portrait of famed designer yves saint laurent is cannily edited so that the film recalls the designers impeccably cut styles. A song from the biographical film saint laurent, directed and scored by bertrand bonello. The karl and jacques are equally oddly cast, and to be blunt most of the time the lead actor looks like hamish bowles not yves saint laurent. In the case of the rivaling yves saint laurent biopics, bertrand bonellos saint laurent is the showoffy stepchild of the two. Saint laurent movie anatomy of a scene w director bertrand bonello the new york times duration. Jan 07, 2015 the battle of the yves sanit laurent movies was won at cannes in may when bertrand bonello s vision of a raw, sexual, hardpartying ysl hit the screen. It is based on the account of the life of a supposed zombified man in haiti, clairvius narcisse. This is one of the things director and cowriter bertrand bonello gets utterly right with saint laurent, his slick and heavily saturated portrait of the eponymous fashion god. Saint laurent official french trailer 2014 yves saint.
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