Yves Saint Laurent 2014

Yves Saint Laurent 2014

Synopsis: Further confirming the apparently boundless talent of Comedie francaise actor Pierre Niney, who doesn’t play Saint Laurent so much as embody him, Yves Saint Laurent traces the life of the precocious talent, who took over from his mentor, Christian Dior, in 1957, when he was only 21. He’d become a

recluse, suffering from manic-depressive spells, in the subsequent decades, becoming more dependent on alcohol and drugs as well as his partner, Pierre Berge, played by Guillaume Gallienne in an equally immersive if far less showy performance. Though the screenplay, based on Laurence Benaim’s biography, is all build-up and no payoff, there is just enough emotional insight to compensate for the lack of narrative fireworks in the last half-hour.