| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Laetitia Casta, Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint-Laurent |
| Event |
Originally produced by KimStim in 2007. |
| Summary |
A fascinating, long-suppressed documentary on the legendary Yves Saint Laurent, commissioned by his business partner (and former lover) Pierre Bergé - and then shelved for more than a decade when Bergé decided it was too revealing. Filming as the proverbial fly-on-the-wall over three years, as YSL became increasingly frail and incommunicado, Meyrou captures the last of the great haute couture houses. Seamstresses, cutters ("les petites mains") and models work frantically to finesse the tiniest adjustments ("the hair of a frog"), as the principals undergo nothing less than existential crises (YSL: poignant and morose; Bergé: acerbic and overbearing). An intimate evocation of the complex relationship between two of fashion's most brilliantly creative and profoundly idiosyncratic men. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and **BFI London Film Festival**. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Fashion.
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History.
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Documentary films.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Meyrou, Olivier, film director.
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Casta, Laetitia, actor.
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Bergé, Pierre, actor.
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Saint-Laurent, Yves, actor.
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KimStim (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
7198543 Kanopy |
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