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'L'Amour Fou' centers on the partner of late designer Yves Saint Laurent, as ...

23.05.11

In recent years we have seen many movies fashion - "Valentino: The Last Emperor", "Coco avant Chanel" and "The September issue" between them </ p> But. "L'Amour Fou," which opened locally on Friday, perhaps the most tender. It focuses on life partner of Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Bergé businessman, as he comes to terms with the death of creator.</ P> Peter Thoretton filmmaker uses the 2009 auction of their art collection extravagant to frame the history and raise questions of love and loss, particularly when they relate to property. </ P> The film opens with Saint Laurent during his televised speech of retirement in 2002, during which he says he is proud to have created the wardrobe for modern women. For him, fashion is not only to make women beautiful, but also "to reassure them that they can assert themselves." </ P> <p is a quote from a time when designers seem to have a higher purpose.Designing practical parts such as safari jackets, trench coats, peasant blouses and shirts Smokers'World, Saint Laurent "was instrumental in the transformation of his time." </ P> <p He also lived through this era, the 1960s and 70s, with his jet-set all, with three lavish homes - in Paris, Marrakech and Normandy - and an art collection that fetched 483.8 million dollars at auction. (The proceeds went to charity and support of Fondation Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.) </ P> Why Berge sell it all after the creator's death in 2008? It's hard to say.Perhaps because he was accustomed to act as custodian of the fragile St. Lawrence, which he did throughout their relationship. It was the yin yang for the designer, the same way Giancarlo Giammetti was for Valentino Garavani. </ P> <p In the film, Berge spoke poignantly about attending the collection of "funeral" and hoping the precious "fly off like the birds and find a new place, they can perch. "He adds:" But the loss of someone with whom you lived for 50 years, you closed your eyes ... it is quite another thing."</ P> Berge and Saint Laurent met in 1958, shortly after the designer presented his first collection for Christian Dior. National treasure Dior had died and there were questions about whether the label will continue. He did, but not for long under the St. Lawrence. He left after six seasons to start his own fashion house with Berge in 1962. </ P> The two bought an apartment in the Rue de Babylone and began collecting art. There was not for their acquisitions, they came on things to chance encounters, "said Berge.In the film, as "croque-art" dismantle the apartment, carefully removing and inspecting each piece, Berge recalls the stories behind some of them. Seeing Saint Laurent famous Mondrian dress in 1965, he said, "I never thought that we have a Mondrian, but then they came one day in our life, followed by others." And Goya, Matisse, Picasso and Ensor. </ P> The film is full of fascinating historical images of parades, the Palace nightclub, the launch of Opium perfume and dancer Zizi Jeanmaire dances in a pink suit, flower spectacular created by Saint Laurent.There are photos from personal archives of Saint Laurent, too, his model muse Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux and his friends Maria Callas and Andy Warhol. </ P> Berge opened their sumptuous mansions Marakkech and Normandy, where each room is named after a character in Proust's novel. plans for monitoring equipment to take the viewer along through slowly, lingering on the fountains and lights frosted perfect, as if directed by a spiritual guide. The houses are still and silent, with fresh flowers in every room. But without a living person in them, they seem as cold as museums.</ P> Despite a world of wealth, Saint Laurent was rarely happy. He was born depressed, Berge said, and sought refuge in drugs and alcohol: "Fame brought him nothing but suffering." </ P> Berge conjecture that had he died first, Saint Laurent would never have organized the auction. "He could not live without this picture or statue," Berge said. "It was like a black hole, it would have been staggering."And there is something sad to see all the boxes being loaded aboard an Air France plane to go on display at Christie's in New York and London before the sale. Sad and gross. < / P> Finally, the day of the auction happens, and Berge solemnly took his seat. He looks at the remains of his love being involved. Table of Goya, the chairman of the dragon, the Brancusi sculpture "Portrait of Madame LR ranging from $ 26 million. He makes you think about the sum total of someone's life, and question the reasoning behind the accumulation of such things, be it art - or fashion .</ P> For his part, Berge does not seem to mourn the loss of parts as the memory of the person who shared. </ P> "L'Amour Fou", in French with English subtitles, opened Friday at the Theatre Royal in West Los Angeles and Laemmle Playhouse 7 Laemmle in Pasadena, California

Source: Kansas City Star