The quality of symbolism would be better suited to a karaoke music video.
Legendary couturier Yves Saint Laurent straddled two worlds. His steady accrual of riches and honors was accompanied by quantities of cocaine and liquor and nervous breakdowns, but Bertrand Bonello’s pretentious biopic Saint Laurent simplifies Yves’s struggles and smooths them away. Sequences are labeled by year, and following a loose chronology, we jump from one fashion moment to the next. Gaspard Ulliel stars as Yves, and Louis Garrel plays his lover Jacques de Bascher, whose living room contains a meaty leather couch, a gynecologist’s stirrup table, and naked men everywhere.
Though Jacques has no job, he has access to an apparently limitless supply of drugs, which he’s always on…
