Pierre Thoretton's 'L'amour fou' chronicles Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé's life and art collection sale

Pierre Thoretton's documentary 'L'amour fou', released in French cinemas on September 22, 2010, explores the fifty-year relationship between fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé. The film opens with Saint Laurent's farewell to fashion, then his 2008 funeral and burial in Marrakech, before tracing their story back to 1957 when Saint Laurent attended Christian Dior's funeral. They met in 1958 and founded the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house in 1961 after Saint Laurent was fired from Dior for not serving in the Algerian War. The couple amassed a significant art collection, which was auctioned by Christie's in February 2009 at the Grand Palais in Paris, dubbed the 'sale of the century'. Thoretton uses archival footage to show artworks arriving at their rue de Babylone apartment and later being sold to anonymous telephone bidders. Bergé is interviewed, recounting their friendships with Andy Warhol and the Rolling Stones, as well as Saint Laurent's struggles with depression, alcohol, and drugs. The film's piano score is by Come Aguiar.