Fashion – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:39:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 YVES SAINT LAURENT https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/yves-saint-laurent/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/yves-saint-laurent/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:38:57 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21087

YVES SAINT LAURENT

| 2014 – 106′ –  Biopic, Drama, Fashion, Period & History.
Written by: Jalil Lespert, Marie-Pierre Huster, Jacques Fieschi.
Directed by: Jalil Lespert.
Starring: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, Marie de Villepin, Nikolai Kinski, Ruben Alves, Astrid Whettnall.
In French with English subtitles.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2014. 7 Nominations Cesar Awards 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
An Anchor Bay Entertainment release. |

Paris, 1957. Barely 21 years old, Yves Saint Laurent is handed the reins of the prestigious fashion house founded by Christian Dior, who has recently died. During his first fashion show, which is a triumph, he meets Pierre Bergé. This encounter will change his life. Lovers and business partners, three years later the two men become partners and form the Yves Saint Laurent label. Despite his obsessions and his inner demons, Yves Saint Laurent gets ready to revolutionize the world of fashion with his modern and iconoclastic approach.

 

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LA MAISON

| 2024 – 10 x 52′ – Series – Drama, Paris, Fashion.
Created by: José Caltagirone, Valentine Milville.
Written by: José Caltagirone, Valentine Milville.
Directed by: Fabrice Gobert, Daniel Grou.
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Amira Casar, Carole Bouquet, Zita Hanrot, Vincent Colombe, Sophie Froissard, Pierre Deladonchamps, Antoine Reinartz, Anne Consigny, Florence Loiret Caille, Corentin Fila, Park Ji-Min.
In French with English subtitles.
An Apple TV+ release. |

 

“La Maison,” is a drama set within an iconic Paris-based high-fashion atelier. A behind-the-scenes look at the contemporary, ever-evolving world of fashion and aspirational French elegance and luxury, “La Maison” follows two illustrious, dysfunctional and powerful rival families as they vie for dominance in the cutthroat world of high fashion.

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BECOMING KARL LAGERFELD

| 2024 – Season 1 – 6 x 52′ – Series – Drama, Biopic.
Created by: Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Jennifer Have, Raphaëlle Bacqué.
Written by: Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Dominique Baumard, Jennifer Have, Nathalie Hertzberg.
Directed by: Audrey Estrougo, Jérôme Salle.
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Alex Lutz, Théodore Pellerin, Arnaud Valois, Agnès Jaoui, Sunnyi Melles, Jeanne Damas, Claire Laffut.
In French with English subtitles.
A Disney+/Hulu release. |

Set in France in the 1970s, the Disney+ Original series, produced by Gaumont, shows the life and loves of the so-called ‘Emperor of Fashion’ Karl Lagerfeld. Starring Daniel Brühl as the German icon and based on the book Kaiser Karl by Raphaëlle Bacqué, it focuses on his journey from an unknown ready-to-wear designer to an icon of Parisian couture and digs into Karl Lagerfeld’s real-life rivalry with his friend Yves Saint Laurent and his love for the troubling young dandy Jacques de Bascher.

 

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SAINT LAURENT

| 2015 – 157′ – Drama, Biopic, Romance
Written by: Thomas Bidegain, Bertrand Bonello.
Directed by: Bertrand Bonello
Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux, Amira Casar, Helmut Berger, Aymeline Valade, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valérie Donzelli.
Official Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 2014, New York Film festival 2014. 10 César Awards Nominations 2015, including Best Film. Official French entry Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

 

Dive into the color and lush textures of the incredible life of fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent. Explore the mind of a creative genius, the intricacies that turned the haute couture label into a worldwide phenomenon and the glamour and decadence that followed Saint Laurent’s footsteps of fame and fortune.

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COCO BEFORE CHANEL

| 2008 – 105′ – Biopic, Drama.
Written by: Anne Fontaine, Camille Fontaine, Christopher Hampton, Jacques Fieschi.
Directed by: Anne Fontaine.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, Emmanuelle Devos, Fabien Behar, Yan Dufas, Marie Parouty.
In French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

 

 

Young Coco Chanel (Audrey Tautou) works as a seamstress by day and a cabaret entertainer by night, then she meets a wealthy heir (Benoît Poelvoorde) and becomes his lover and fashion consultant. Tired of the flowery hats, tight corsets and yards of lace that define women’s fashion, Coco uses her lover’s clothing as a starting point to distill an elegant and sophisticated line of women’s clothing that propels her to the top of Parisian haute couture.

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]]> CHIC! https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/7615-2/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/7615-2/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:31:13 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=7615 CHIC!

| 2015 – 103′ –  Comedy
Written by: Jean-Paul Bathany.
Directed by: Jérôme Cornuau.
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Marina Hands, Eric Elmosnino, Laurent Stocker.
Official Competition COLCOA 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release.|

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Hélène, the ambitious director of the prestigious Ricosi fashion house, has no time for a personal life. She faces a deadline for the new collection just when the company’s designer and diva-in-chief Alicia Ricosi (Fanny Ardant) has fallen out of love – a condition that never fails to produce a creative slump. To avoid the imminent wrath of her neurotic CEO, Hélène and her staff make herculean efforts to find Alicia the new muse she needs to get her creative juices flowing again. Fate intervenes when Alicia unexpectedly cracks for Julien, a seemingly unsophisticated garden designer played by Eric Elmosnino (GAINSBOURG, COLCOA 2012) whom Hélène has unfortunately just fired. To gain Julien’s cooperation and save the collection, Hélène will need to use all her powers of persuasion, even the ones she’s forgotten she had.

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PAPICHA

| 2019 – 105′ – Drama – Written and Directed by Mounia Meddour.
Starring Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda.
Official Entry From Algeria ©Academy Awards 2020.
North American Premiere COLCOA 2019.
In Arabic and French with English Subtitles.
A Distrib Films U.S. release. |

 

Nedjma (Lyna Khoudri starring in Wes Anderson’s upcoming ‘The French Dispatch’) is a university student during the Algerian Civil War. Although she’s studying French, her passion is fashion design. Defying religious conservatism, she custom-makes dresses for her peers that are examples of individual expression. Attacks on civilians are on the rise from fundamentalist Islamist sects, and a shocking incident drives Nedjma to stage a unique protest: a fashion show centered around repurposing the haik, a traditional veil, into secular garments.

 

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