Two biopics on Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent is such a great character that perhaps a single film about his life was not enough. Or French cinema is running out of ideas, and shortly thereafter, in 2014, it will release two different and controversial films about the same character. We are talking about Yves Saint Laurent, the film by Jalil Lespert which will be released in France on January 8th, and Saint Laurent, director Bertrand Bonello's version of the adventurous life of France's most beloved couturier after Christian Dior, which will be released in May.

The release of the two films was not without controversy: Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurent's historical companion, disavowed Bonello's film, perhaps because a plot too focused on the French couturier's drug addiction leaked out, and in response he given access to the archives of the maison for Lespert's film. The comparisons, of course, are also on the cast. For the film "approved" by the maison we see Pierre Niney as Yves and Guillaume Gallienne as Bergé as protagonists, while in the film Bonello's cast seems more attractive even outside the homeland: Gaspard Ulliel is Yves Saint Laurent, while Jérémie Renier plays Bergé: it therefore seems clear that both films will put love and the working partnership between the two at the center of the events. An "aesthetic as well as sentimental union, already told in the documentary Yves Saint Laurent: Amour fou, where Bergé personally recounted the sale at auction of the splendid art collection that the two had created together over years of travel and research.

© Internet Yves Saint Laurent's life, from his beginnings as Christian Dior's assistant to the founding of his own maison, with the revolution he promoted in the fashion world from the 1960s and 1970s, was studded with stellar friendships, such as that with Loulou de la Falaise, designer and muse, crucial in the life of the designer. To interpret it will be two very popular actresses in France, Léa Seydoux, fresh from the success of Adele 's life for Bonello's film, and the most defiled and tormented Laura Smet, daughter of Nathalie Baye and Johnny Halliday, in Lespert's film.