A decade later: The Greatest Couturier about Saint Laurent was released
The film, which has been awaited for the last ten years, has finally been released. Due to disagreements between the director and one of the actors, the film lay on the shelf for almost a decade. He was waiting for his time, and now it has come.
"The Greatest Couturier" - a film about the last years of life Yves Saint Laurent. These years were filled with depression, alcohol and drug addiction, the loss of everything that gave the master inspiration earlier. All shots in which Yves Saint Laurent is present are black and white, the rest is in color.
Such a director's decision speaks of how colorless the world has become for the fashion designer in the last years of his life. He is still true to his dream, but the master no longer has the strength to follow it.
Those who want to admire the shows and beautiful models in luxurious outfits will be disappointed. Despite the fact that such scenes are classics of the genre for films about fashion and fashion designers, in "The Greatest Couturier" they will not be at all.
The couturier himself rarely appears in the frame, the director Mayru said that Yves was shy of cameras, and he had to shoot him like animals in the wild, watching and seizing the moments.
The film began filming in 1998, and filming continued until the fashion designer retired. But then it turned out that his assistant Berger intended to independently control the editing and the script, but the director refused. As a result, the film was shown only once. - at the Berlinale, and then Berger banned the screenings, explaining that no one had given Meir permission to do so.
Berger died two years ago. And now they decided to release the picture, because, according to critics, it turned out to be incredibly poignant.
This is a picture about an old and sick man, a genius who was suppressed by the fashion industry with its rather cruel laws, who was "devoured" by assistants and partners.This painting is about the loneliness and despair of the greatest master who can see beauty.
