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France · 2010
1h 38m
Director Pierre Thoretton
Starring Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint-Laurent, Betty Catroux, Loulou de la Falaise
Genre Documentary
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As the grand couturier of a fashion empire, Yves Saint Laurent influenced fifty years of style, but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. Pierre Bergé, the man with which Saint Laurent shared four decades of his life and love, reflects on their lives together.
It plays like an extended auction catalog with commentary. Thematically recalling Olivier Assayas's "Summer Hours"-another film dealing with objects in a French art collection as receptacles for memory and personal biography-it sorely lacks that drama's tension between insular nostalgia and the wider, rapidly evolving outside world.
Boxoffice Magazine by Barbara Goslawski
Akin to a stroll through a gallery, L'amour Fou is meditative and magically eye-opening.
Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
The documentary is fascinating as a museum piece with Berge serving as docent.
Shy on the celebrity-gawking (and celebrity input) that marks many fashion documentaries, and neither gossipy nor an objective appreciation of his impact and legacy, picture is a successful portrait on its own terms, save one: It's unlikely to excite much theatrical interest.
As engrossing as it is maddening, Pierre Thoretton's documentary on the sale of Yves Saint Laurent's extensive art collection is perched somewhere between a sanded-edged official portrait and a keen examination of affluence run amok.
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
L'amour Fou engages and moves viewers in two distinct ways. It engages us by showing us something we don't know about that's interesting. It moves us by showing us something we immediately understand, that has nothing to do with being a big shot and everything to do with being just another person at the mercy of time.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
An oddly discursive documentary that is, ultimately, more about Pierre Bergé, his companion and business partner of 50 years.
Like a well-crafted garment, it's seamless. There's plenty of amour, but not enough fou.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
To realize that you may have the world while still feeling as if you have nothing is to experience a closer encounter with the void than most of us are likely to have.
Not a definitive portrait of the designer, nor does it pretend to be. But it should be of interest to viewers even if there's not a single YSL label in their wardrobes.
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