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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #29. Bertrand Bonello’s Yves Saint Laurent

Published on January 14, 2013

Yves Saint Laurent

Director: Bertrand Bonello
Writer(s): Bonello & Thomas Bidegain
Producer(s): Mandarin Cinéma’s Eric and Nicolas Altmayer
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Gaspard Ulliel

Bonello doing a biopic on a fashion icon with scribe Thomas Bidegain (Jacques Audiard films) and featuring Gaspard Ulliel (random photo above) as YSL, who in his own right has been a fragrance and style icon with his own chiseled facial features. What skeletons will this dig up?

Gist: The film will focus on the period running 1965 to 1976 when Yves Saint Laurent was at the peak of his powers, culminating with the 1976 Russian collection, considered by many as his most influential.

Release Date: Shooting is expect to begin in the spring, so Cannes 2013 is a definite pass which only means that Venice is a little bit more probable but not necessarily feasible either.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include 1976 (Manuela Martelli), Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).