Icarus Films will be teaming up with the KimStim
Collection on Mar. 17 for the DVD rollout of French documentary filmmaker Olivier
Meyrou’s Celebration.
Meyrou was given access to the world of fashion icon
Yves Saint Laurent and spent three years documenting the process of — and the preparation
for — his final show. Once Celebration was finally
completed, it was screened at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival … and then banned!!
Yes, forcibly withdrawn from circulation by Yves
Saint Laurent’s business partner and long-time love interest, Pierre Berge
(they would have a same-sex civil union ceremony just days before Yves Saint
Laurent succumbed to brain cancer). It
is reported that he saw the film at the Berlin Film Festival screening as was
shocked by the frail appearance of his friend … no longer the jet-setter,
vibrant, but in decline, near the end and “not quite all there” (Yves Saint
Laurent would pass the following year).
From 2007 until 2015, Celebration
remained in limbo. Perhaps faced with
his own mortality, Pierre Berge (who died in 2017) finally relented and the
film was allowed to be released in France in 2018 … various film festival dates
quickly followed and in early October of 2019 the film received a very limited arthouse
run in the domestic marketplace.
For the record, the ARR for Celebration
works out to 165 days.
For fashion fans, French-language film enthusiasts,
the curious and those who followed the career of the legendary haute couture designer Yves Saint
Laurent, Celebration is a
must-see experience.
Celebration is
presented in French with English subtitles.
Icarus Films has also added to the release calendar
this past week documentary filmmaker Cosima Dannoritzer’s provocative Time
Thieves … it will be released on DVD on Mar. 10.
Known for her work about ecology and technology (If
Rubbish Could Speak, The Light Bulb Conspiracy, The E-Waste Tragedy),
Dannoritzer was literally gobstruck one day when glancing through her date book
… she called it “the dictatorship of the clock in my life” and set about to
make a film on how businesses have turned time, like water, or oil, or energy
into a commodity.
She then began a globe-trotting quest to interview
politicians, union officials, consultants, academics and business leaders on
the subject of time. She shows examples
of how businesses have subtly (or not so subtly) transferred work to the
consumer — printing your own airline boarding passes, self-check-out stands and
more.
Among those interviewed are mathematician Spencer
Greenberg, Marie-Anne Dujarier (Sociologist, La Sorbonne, Paris), Magali Combal
(time management consultant), Klaus Müller of the Federation of German Consumer
Organisations, Jawad Qasrawi (Hazards
Magazine) and more.
Time Thieves is
presented in multiple languages and comes with English subtitles where
appropriate.
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