Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Jul 13, 2024 3.5/4

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.

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Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Jun 22, 2023 3/5

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

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Elissa Suh StageBuddy.com Mar 16, 2020

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.

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Bernard Boo Way Too Indie Mar 14, 2019 6.5/10

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.

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Boris Nelepo Cinema Scope Nov 14, 2017

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

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M. Faust The Public (Buffalo) Oct 11, 2017

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

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Jeffrey Edalatpour KQED (San Francisco) Sep 18, 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.

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Jonathan Kiefer SF Weekly Aug 24, 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.

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Fernando Moreno Ibero 90.9 Jun 7, 2016

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]

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Violet Lucca The L Magazine Jun 6, 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.

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Peter Labuza The Film Stage Jun 6, 2016 C+

A flashy and intermittently unique biopic.

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Gonzalo Lira Galván Cinema Movil Jun 3, 2016 3.5/5

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

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Hugo Hernández Valdivia Cinexcepción Jun 1, 2016 75/100

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

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Jorge Ayala Blanco El Universal Jun 1, 2016

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

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Luis Martínez El Mundo (Spain) 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]

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Carlos Boyero El Pais (Spain) May 31, 2016

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

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Edgardo Reséndiz Reforma May 30, 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]

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Eduardo Molina Reforma 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]

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Luis Fernando Galván En Filme May 27, 2016 2.5/5

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

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Erick Estrada Cinegarage May 27, 2016

With a smart script by Thomas Bidegain, Bonello breaks apart a story that told in any other way would've been more of the same. [Full review in Spanish]

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