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It’s ‘L’Amour Fou’ Between IFC Films and Yves Saint Laurent
IFC Films’ TIFF shopping might not be complete, as the distrib picked up the rights to Pierre Thorentton’s Yves Saint Laurent: L’Amour Fou. The French language docu on the fashion icon received it’s world premiere screening last September at TIFF and will be released theatrically sometime next year.
IFC Films’ TIFF shopping might not be complete, as the distrib picked up the rights to Pierre Thorentton’s Yves Saint Laurent: L’Amour Fou. The French language docu on the fashion icon received it’s world premiere screening last September at TIFF and will be released theatrically sometime next year.
Gist: Yves Saint Laurent built one of fashion’s most celebrated empires. This chronicles his rise, his
lifelong partnership with Pierre Bergé and their decision to auction off a lifetime of precious art and objects.
Worth Noting: This won Fipresci International Critics Prize for Special Presentations at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010.
Do We Care?: Despite it receiving a huge world preem showing at TIFF, we pretty much blinked and forgot about the title in September, but post-fest it managed to win a prize that we deem to be a strong indication of the film’s quality and though we prefer the marriage of fashion and film in samples such as I am Love and A Single Man, we’ve found that fashion and film on the docu format can be surprisingly alluring and for distributors, can be profitable.
