Yves Saint Laurent (film)
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| Directed by | Jalil Lespert |
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Yannick Bolloré Wassim Béji |
| Written by |
Jacques Fieschi Jalil Lespert Jérémie Guez Marie-Pierre Huster |
| Based on |
Yves Saint Laurent by Laurence Benaïm |
| Starring |
Pierre Niney Guillaume Gallienne Charlotte Le Bon Laura Smet Marie de Villepin Xavier Lafitte Nikolai Kinski |
| Music by | Ibrahim Maalouf |
| Cinematography | Thomas Hardmeier |
| Edited by | François Gédigier |
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| Distributed by | SND Films |
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105 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French English Russian Arabic Japanese |
| Budget | €12 million |
| Box office | $21 million |
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. The film opened the Panorama Special section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival at the renovated Zoo Palast, with director, cast and Pierre Bergé in attendance. The film received seven nominations at the 40th César Awards, winning Best Actor for Pierre Niney.
Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé promote the French fashion industry and stay friends against all odds.
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.
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 headquarters on Avenue Marceau in Paris." Bergé "praised Lespert’s film—based largely on a Laurence Benaïm biography of Saint Laurent and Bergé’s reminiscences in his book Letters to Yves—for showing the designer’s demons." Bergé said "...there are details I don’t like, but that is of no importance whatsoever. You have to take the movie as it is—as a whole."
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