Saint Laurent

R

Released May 8, 2015

2 hr. 31 min.

Biography

History

Drama

LGBTQ+

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62%

86 Reviews

Tomatometer

40%

1,000+ Ratings

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Born in Algeria, Yves Saint Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel) moves to France and utilizes his creativity to become an icon of the fashion industry.

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Critics Consensus

A well-intentioned but frustratingly diffuse biopic, Saint Laurent proves an ironically poor fit for a look at the life of a fashion icon.

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Alec B

It's an admirably unconventional biopic filled with wonderful sequences of bold stylistic choices but it's also about 30 minutes too long.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/14/23

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Terry S

Beautifully filmed but puzzlingly assembled and a bit hard to follow. I came away knowing little more about him than I did previously.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

10/22/23

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Georgan G

The fashion designs were beautiful, but Saint Laurent spent his time either working or doing drugs & drinking. The film did not tell the truth of his death, it was way too long & not helpful to viewers trying to figure out where the plot was in the timeline.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

09/20/23

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andy n

Very long, very boring!

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Starts like a documentary, turns into a fever dream, is almost saved by the clothes at the inevitable showing at the end but the fever dream on steroids (what is real, what is imagined) makes it a complete mess

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

This French entry for the Oscar Best Foreign Language Film is no more a laboriously Felliniesque and stubbornly enigmatic rumination about the decadent desires of the iconic fashion designer than an adequately illuminating autobiography.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Bertrand Bonello

Director

Gaspard Ulliel

Yves Saint Laurent

Jérémie Renier

Pierre Bergé

Louis Garrel

Jacques de Bascher

Léa Seydoux

Loulou de La Falaise

Amira Casar

Anne-Marie Munoz

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Elissa Suh

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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, and distant gazes.

Mar 16, 2020

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Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

It captures the tense flavor of a particularly heady time in Saint Laurent's life, during which he struggled with addiction and illness and juggled relationships ...

Rated: 3/4

Jun 11, 2015

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Calvin Wilson

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Saint Laurent was a truly mythic figure. It's a shame that Bonello's film doesn't do him justice.

Rated: 2/4

Jun 11, 2015

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

A striking proposal (the YSL collections are appreciated in all their splendor) and only at times fascinating... [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Jun 22, 2023

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Bernard Boo

Way Too Indie

A lot of the film resembles those trashy fall-from-grace rock 'n' roll biopics where the rock star gets lost in a whirlwind of sex and drugs, but Ulliel elevates the material by accentuating Saint Laurent's more sinister, predatory side.

Rated: 6.5/10

Mar 14, 2019

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Boris Nelepo

Cinema Scope

Just as Bonello's anachronisms blithely cross disparate eras, so Saint Laurent gainsaid the passage of time.

Nov 14, 2017

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Synopsis

Born in Algeria, Yves Saint Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel) moves to France and utilizes his creativity to become an icon of the fashion industry.

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Screenwriter: Thomas Bidegain, Bertrand Bonello
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: arte France Cinéma, EuropaCorp, Orange Studio, Scope Pictures, Mandarin Cinéma
Rating: R (Some Language|Graphic Nudity|Strong Sexual Situations|Substance Abuse)
Genre: Biography, History, Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): May 8, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $47.7K

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