They had to recreate two entire collections – 45 dresses – and make an exact replica of the apartment on the Rue de Babylone.
Bonello and his team did not have access to the archives of the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation.
Lespert, in addition to having the blessing of Pierre Bergé, also opted for speed and his Saint-Laurent biopic went on general release in January 2013 and was a box-office success. At the same time, a parallel production was launched, with Jalil Lespert in the director’s chair. At the end, I was down to 35kg, and I had mental problems.” After L’Apollonide (“House of Tolerance”), his magnificent tale of life in a Paris brothel, caught in its all poisonous erotic isolation, Bertrand Bonello was asked by the Altmayer Brothers - producers inter alia of OSS 117, the most recent François Ozon movies (Potiche, Jeune et Jolie) and The Conquest, a film on Nicolas Sarkozy’s election campaign - to direct a major production with a budget of close to €10 million on the great couturier. In two months I only went to the toilet twice, I was so frightened. Some of them wanted to caress me but I wouldn’t let them. They used electric shock treatment on me, too.
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The doctors at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital filled me so full of tranquillisers that I became addicted to them. He is holding a black telephone receiver to his ear, speaking to a journalist at the other end in a precious, thin voice: “I was interned 16 years ago, you know, during the Algerian War. Ulliel is back-lit, seated on the bed, facing away from the camera as it slowly zooms in on him. A man approaches the concierge and says “You have a reservation in the name of Monsieur Swann.” Gaspard Ulliel plays Yves Saint Laurent in the film that Bertrand Bonello shot this winter and is editing as we go to press. © 2014 MANDARIN CINEMA - EUROPACORP – ORANGE STUDIO – ARTE FRANCE CINEMA – SCOPE PICTURES / CAROLE BETHUEL The place: a very 70s lobby in a luxury hotel.
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