Yves Saint Laurent movie

Five years after his death the world of Cinema celebrates one of the most iconical, genial and restless characters of fashion system, Yves Saint Laurent, with a biopic entrusted to the French director Jalil Lespert with actor Pierre Niney in the role of the late designer and focused on the binomial genius and recklessness, presented at the last Berlin Film Festival and just released in the italian theatres. 

The movie, one of the two dedicated to him  and the only one approved by Pierre Bergé, his former partner in business and private life, intents to trace a portrait of the tormented soul of the French designer starting from his arrival to the direction of Maison Dior after the death of its founder. A life made of brilliant creations and successes, but also many dark moments until the meeting with Bergé who signed his rebirth, sentimental and professional with the launch at only 26 years old of his own brand YSL that will become, during the years, the symbol of those elegance, sophistication and style, traditional and innovative at the same time, typically french.

A movie that adds almost nothing to Yves Saint Laurent’s legend but that talks about several topics with – and I don’t know if these are the right terms - sobriety, elegance and lightness