Rather than a hagiography, Bonello confronts his subject’s personhood without dwelling on his genius, leaving viewers with no clear sense of how one should feel about Yves Saint Laurent. That’s part of what makes the film so exceptional.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 13, 2024

A striking proposal (the YSL collections are appreciated in all their splendor) and only at times fascinating... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2023

Saint Laurent, a vibrant, buzzy biopic of the visionary French designer, plays like an extended high fashion ad campaign, prioritizing corporeal movement aided and abetted by shiny textures, music, and distant gazes.

| Mar 16, 2020

A lot of the film resembles those trashy fall-from-grace rock 'n' roll biopics where the rock star gets lost in a whirlwind of sex and drugs, but Ulliel elevates the material by accentuating Saint Laurent's more sinister, predatory side.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Mar 14, 2019

Just as Bonello's anachronisms blithely cross disparate eras, so Saint Laurent gainsaid the passage of time.

| Nov 14, 2017

Director Bertrand Bonello ... weave[s] a languorous but transfixing portrait of artistic life and the decadence that often comes with it.

| Oct 11, 2017

Saint Laurent is the filmic equivalent of drinking a bottle of absinthe. Even after leaving the theater, its green haze is not easily shaken off.

| Sep 18, 2017

Saint Laurent is aesthetically rich, with exacting production design and a semi-jaundiced sepia hue that periodically evokes the brittleness of an aging newspaper.

| Aug 24, 2017

An unauthorized biopic that dwells in some of the darkest passages of Saint Laurent where his addictions and infidelities are a common thing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 7, 2016

Bertrand Bonello's film shares more DNA with Olivier Assayas's Carlos than the September Issue (magazine or documentary), and prioritizes action, energy, and form over lengthy explications of history or psychology.

| Jun 6, 2016

A flashy and intermittently unique biopic.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 6, 2016

It manages to capture the way Saint Laurent's vision changed the world around him. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 3, 2016

A film composed of different vignettes starring the eponymous character while breaking the conventional biopic narrative. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 75/100 | Jun 1, 2016

A fantasy biopic that celebrates visually all the creativity and decadence surrounding the eponymous fashion designer. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 1, 2016

An interesting visual proposal and sometimes fascinating biopic, even if it's a little long. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 31, 2016

The film shines specially in the parts where we see an old designer trapped by his own contraptions. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 31, 2016

Everything feels like too much in this boring and pretentious biopic. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 31, 2016

Impressive production values, very well narrated and acted, outstanding recreations of the runways that YSL hosted, but more centered in the dark secrets the designer had. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 30, 2016

Of all the films about the famous designer this is the better one, even if it's somewhat superficial. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 30, 2016

Bonello tries to demistify it's subject but sometimes it feels like the character overcomes his vision. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 27, 2016