Yves St. Laurent: His Life and Times Reviews
TheMovieChicks.com
If you're curious about fashion, it's okay. If sitting through two documentaries about fashion sounds as exciting as, well watching people sew on buttons, skip it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticThe proceedings quickly turn tedious for those not fascinated by the craft, though no doubt future generations of fashionistas will be thrilled to have them documented.
Despite the excess of information, the films are so unfocused we never get to know the man behind the gowns.
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| Original Score: 2/4
This austere non-narrative should fascinate fashion buffs and fans of rigorous cinematic formalism, but leave everyone else fidgeting restlessly in their mass-market jeans and T-shirts.
Reeling Reviews
Long takes and St. Laurent's deep calm have a meditative effect ... when all is said and done the high prices of couture are understood.
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| Original Score: A-
Complementary documentaries at Film Forum examine the life and career of the designer Yves Saint Laurent.
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| Original Score: 3/5
An absorbing exploration of creativity and the artistic temperament.
A glimpse inside the mind of one of the last century's biggest names and a history lesson about the world of high fashion.
Enlightening and enjoyable.
| Original Score: 3/4
Christian Science Monitor
Uncovers less than one might wish about Saint Laurent's enigmatic personality, but fashion buffs will get an eyeful.
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| Original Score: 3/4
A family feeling pervades this intimate documentary, which follows three months of creation for a single season's collection (Winter 2001), from the first drawings to the last finished garment.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Teboul explores the nature of Saint Laurent's peculiar genius in these two related documentaries that, taken together, form an interesting portrait of a fascinating, if at times maddeningly enigmatic, figure of high fashion.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film Journal International
Teboul's films get as close as anyone to revealing the inner workings of the mind of a man who stands as one of the truly influential, world's eye-view-changing designers of the last century.
The picture is wrapped in a haze of melancholy, as if we're watching a swath of history -- the history of couture, specifically -- winding slowly away from us.
