Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent is a Frech biopic directed by Jalil Lespert. The film is based on the life of the French fashion icon starting around 1958 when the then 21 year old was appointed the new director of Christian Dior’s fashion house. He shoots into stardom as a haute couture visionary and is soon introduced to Pierre Bergé, a man who would be come Laurent’s lifelong partner in business and in life. The two would go on to launch the Yves Saint Laurent Company and become big players in the world’s luxury fashion scene. The film stars Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, and Montreal native Charlotte Le Bon.

Director Jalil Lespert was looking for a great love story as his next project and found it in the life of Yves Saint Laurent. “I wanted to tell a powerful, epic love story. I also wanted to portray characters striving to make their dreams come true. As I was thinking over what I wanted to do for my new project, I came up with the idea of YVES SAINT LAURENT. I was thrilled to make a film about the great French designer and Pierre Bergé. What moved me about that story is that it portrays two brilliant characters, including a genius with all that it entails in terms of flaws and wounds. Moreover, Yves was manic-depressive and diagnosed as such by doctors.”

Yves Saint Laurent is rated 14A.

Read our review of the film here.

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