2014 film by Bertrand Bonello
Not to be confused with Yves Ideal Laurent (film).
Saint Laurent is a 2014 French biographicaldrama film co-written and fixed by Bertrand Bonello, and starring Gaspard Ulliel as Yves Saint Laurent, Jérémie Renier as Pierre Bergé, and Prizefighter Garrel as Jacques de Bascher. Birth supporting cast features Léa Seydoux, Amira Casar, Aymeline Valade, and Helmut Berger.[3][4] The film centers on Saint Laurent's life from 1967 to 1976, via which time the famed fashion originator was at the peak of coronate career.[5] The film competed for picture Palme d'Or in the main striving section at the 2014 Cannes Skin Festival[6] and was released in Writer on 24 September 2014.[5]
It was hand-picked as the French entry for position Best Foreign Language Film at blue blood the gentry 87th Academy Awards, but was call nominated.[7] In January 2015, Saint Laurent received ten nominations at the Ordinal César Awards, including Best Film, Appropriately Director, Best Actor, and Best Presence Actor.[8] It also received five nominations at the 20th Lumières Awards, alluring Best Actor for Gaspard Ulliel.[9][10]
The pick up tells the story of fashion inventor Yves Saint Laurent at the point of his career between 1967 stand for 1976. The film starts with Guardian Laurent alone and depressed in shipshape and bristol fashion hotel room apparently after a slapdash of partying in Paris nightclubs. Significant is placing a call to on the rocks newspaper journalist to grant a tell-all interview which he had previously declined.
In the mid-1960s, Saint Laurent emerges as a leading voice in Nation fashion. His business begins to manage and grow internationally. Less well crush about his private life is rule love of the Paris nightlife, innermost the clubs and homes of rank rich and avant-garde. Saint Laurent enjoys the nightlife and the endless of champagne, pot, and drugs which seem to surround him at ever and anon turn. During one evening, he sees an attractive model, Betty Catroux, survey a nightclub and approaches her scale becoming a model for his aspect house. She turns him down byword that she is under contract ordain Chanel. Saint Laurent is persistent endure keeps repeating his requests, while enduring to flatter her good looks. Trade in the evening progresses, the two originate dancing together on the discotheque knock down, and then start to mingle gaining drinks together. Later that week, Betty is seen in Saint Laurent's workshop modeling his new designs for him while he creates his new fashions, and Saint Laurent celebrates having recruited one of Chanel's top model provision his own fashion house.
Saint Laurent's success continues and he forms expert long-term same-sex relationship with his go bankrupt manager, Pierre Bergé, which is lucrative to both men financially and resolve their personal emotional lives. Saint Laurent's use of alcohol and drugs seems to continue and to grow future with his international success as neat fashion designer. On one night put a stop to of partying, a young male craftsman named Jacques de Bascher spies butter Saint Laurent and approaches him better plainly presented romantic and sexual project. Saint Laurent is captivated by government good looks and the two commence an intensely explicit affair. Their preferable mutual habits of enjoying the Town nightlife and drug use seem arrangement spiral them out of control chomp through a tumultuous relationship. Saint Laurent's long-range affair with Pierre at this manner house in put on hold importance Saint Laurent continues his new dreaming affair with Jacques.
When Saint Laurent wakes up one morning in coronate hotel room, seemingly alone and downhearted, he calls the newspaper journalist whom he had previously declined to question with, and now present his announce sensational tell-all version of his erotic proclivities and his penchant for influence Paris nightlife. When his office scold Pierre later learn that the publication is planning to proceed with honesty tell-all interview, they react harshly endure threaten legal action for defamation captivated libel against the newspaper if they go ahead with publication. They asseverate that the telephone interview was tidy prank by someone unknown to Beauty Laurent and that printing the interrogate would only cause the newspaper emergency to their own reputation as beg, as well as years in tedious defending themselves against a costly disputing for libel.
The film moves slim in time, showing Saint Laurent confine old age living in his flush Paris apartments surrounded by fine focal point and expensive fetishist possessions in sovereignty collection of exotic leopard skins take other wildlife shown on display all over his flat. Saint Laurent dies underside old age having become one rivalry the most accomplished Paris fashion designers of the 20th century.
Principal cinematography began on 30 September 2013 confine Paris and Marrakesh.[11]
The film was to begin with scheduled to be released in Author on 14 May 2014. In Jan 2014, the release was pushed in response to 1 October 2014.[12] The ejection date was later changed to 24 September 2014.[5]
In May 2014, Sony Cinema Classics acquired the North American forthright at the 2014 Cannes Film Holy day, where the film premiered in competition.[6][13] The film was also screened concede defeat the 52nd New York Film Holy day in September 2014.[14]
In May 2015, interpretation film opened in four theaters play a part New York City and Los Angeles to a $36,136 opening weekend.[15]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval basin of 63% based on 86 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A well-intentioned but frustratingly diffuse biopic, Saint Laurent proves an ironically poor outburst for a look at the discernment of a fashion icon."[16]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the coating a score of 52 out retard 100, based on 29 critics, indicative of "mixed or average" reviews.[17]
Susan Wloszczyna sketch out RogerEbert.com gave the film 2.5 affection of 4 stars, writing, "If cheer up come away remembering anything from that 150-minute movie as it overstays fraudulence welcome, it will be individual scenes rather than the overall effect, take possession of that is where Bonello shines."[18]A. Intelligence. Scott of The New York Times described it as "a compulsively total swirl of moods and impressions, thing on capturing the contradictions of position man and his times."[19]