Focusing on the dark, hedonistic, wildly creative decade from (from 1967 to ’77) in Yves Saint Laurent’s life and career. Over the course of the film, the couturier (played by Gaspard Ulliel) becomes a myth, a brand, and an avatar of his era, moving through a string of hothouse ateliers and nightclubs whose centers of gravity all seem to realign around him.
Focusing on the dark, hedonistic, wildly creative decade from (from 1967 to ’77) in Yves Saint Laurent’s life and career. Over the course of the film, the couturier (played by Gaspard Ulliel) becomes a myth, a brand, and an avatar of his era, moving through a string of hothouse ateliers and nightclubs whose centers of gravity all seem to realign around him.
"The biopic captures a psychology and aesthetic in an exhilarating, sensual, cerebral fashion."
Newsday
"A lush, stylish and evocative journey. Bertrand Bonello's magnificently mounted biopic succeeds as a warts and all story of the legendary fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent."
Screen Daily
"Artful. Prismatic. Elegant. Profoundly moving. Played with beautiful intensity by Gaspard Ulliel."
Paper Magazine