Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

Fashions fade. Style is forever.

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.

Date of release
2014-01-08
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (941)
Runtime
1h 46m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jalil Lespert

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Paris

Yves Saint Laurent is a 2014 French biographical drama film directed by Jalil Lespert and co-written with Jacques Fieschi, Jérémie Guez, and Marie-Pierre Huster. The film is based on the life of Yves Saint Laurent from 1958. The film stars Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, Marie de Villepin, Xavier Lafitte, and Nikolai Kinski.

Production

In March 2013, The Weinstein Company acquired the rights to the film to distribute in the United States, while Entertainment One holds U.K., Australian and Benelux distribution rights, including Canadian distribution rights.

Lespert called Niney and over a drink a beer he told the actor, "I want to tell one of the most beautiful love stories and creation stories of our century. It’s the story of Yves Saint Laurent, I want you to play Yves Saint Laurent"; as Niney didn’t know about his character he undertook research and realised that "he was a really beautiful, complex, iconic and mysterious character".

Niney commented that he faced three challenges: that he had "to play a manic depressive", that he aged in the film "from around 18 to 46 years old" and lastly "not to lose the link between all the faces of the character. He is changing so much from the little boy at the beginning of the movie, then the hippies in the 70s with the long beard and the long hair and then older again".

Lespert chose to shoot using real locations and clothes – using dresses out of the cold rooms and museums and Saint Laurent's own real pen, draft, desk, and walking stick.

Principal photography began in June 2013. Part of the filming was done with Bergé, who sent "out models on the runway for a reconstitution of Saint Laurent's famous Opéra Ballets Russes collection of 1976, which was filmed at the fashions show's original venue, the Westin hotel (formerly known as the InterContinental.)" Bergé's foundation loaned the film "77 vintage outfits from its archives and allowed Lespert to film certain scenes at its headq…

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