Saint Laurent

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Saint Laurent

R

Released May 8, 2015

2h 31m

Biography

History

Drama

LGBTQ+

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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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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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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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Tom Long

Detroit News

Repetitive, repulsive, empty while stuffed with cheap ennui and wholly lacking in either insight or inspiration, "Saint Laurent" is absolutely everything you don't want to see in a biographical film.

Rated: D

Jun 11, 2015

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Rather than a hagiography, Bonello confronts his subject’s personhood without dwelling on his genius, leaving viewers with no clear sense of how one should feel about Yves Saint Laurent. That’s part of what makes the film so exceptional.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jul 13, 2024

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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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Elissa Suh

StageBuddy.com

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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Shioka O

It was ok watch. The focus was more for his psychological issues and scandals than his creativity.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/11/24

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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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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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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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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
Producer: Éric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer, Christophe Lambert
Screenwriter: Thomas Bidegain, Bertrand Bonello
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: arte France Cinéma, Mandarin Cinéma, Orange Studio, EuropaCorp, Scope Pictures
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
Runtime: 2h 31m

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