Is this as boring as the other one?

It is boring / I have not seen other one but this one is one damn boring movie

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See both. You will get a better idea of what actually happened and it's a great moment to see these real life people in one of the greatest times and in Paris. There is so much going on. In Saint Laurent, one of the greatest scenes is in the club and Loulou (played by Lea Seydoux) gets up to dance. The music is pulsating, she's writhiing and the movie takes you back to this very moment to witness one of the greatest artists during one of the most revolutionary and creative if not decadent of times. Not too many people survived, but they certainly didn't live boring lives. But when Yves first meets Jacques, it's phenomenal.

The first film, Yves Saint Laurent, had approval from Pierre Berge. So we really see it from "his" point of view. But it's no holds barred in Saint Laurent. You see very little of Pierre except in business transactions and some silly sexual games he and Laurent played. There is no Karl in this movie. This movie really focuses on how much Laurent loved, was captivated and how devastated he was over Jacques de Bascher de Beaumarchais. And you see the exquisite and famous collection of 1976. And you get to meet Laurent, so perfectly played by both French actors in both movies and then by Helmut at the end of his life, and there's Jacques de Bascher, Loulou de la Falaise, Betty Catroux, Talitha Getty and Moujik I. These were magical times that were effectively captured and the soundtrack is really excellent..

Was not at all boring to me! It was about the behind the scenes unedited parts of his life when it came to sex, drugs & alcohol and his creative urgings and processes. Loved it!

This was really boring. I can't believe the other one could be more boring than this.

To those saying that it's maybe because we pedestrians are not used to posh french cinema, pardon me...but that's not the case. It's simply that you don't need 2 1/2 movie to show stills, there are bits that could have had potential, but no. This is not a worthy story. This could have been compressed to 1 1/2 and we would feel the same.
I would have rather watched this story from Bergé's point of view or to focus on the process of that last collection or just his relationship with Jacques...just some goddamn focus.

I fairly enjoyed the first movie ("YSL") but this one is incredibly boring. I have been watching it for 45 minutes and am dying of boredom; despite the appearance here of my favorite French actor, Louis Garrel. Glad to see I am not the only one with this opinion. And I watch French movies all the time!

I've watched both. I'm glad I watched YSL first because I think it's the more straigh-forward typical biographical movie and I got a lot of facts straight before watching Saint Laurent (SL) which "tells" you less and is a bit more "experimental" in its portrayal. Also YSL begins earlier in Yves' life and gave me some background.

I think YSL is the better "story" of the two. SL gets lost a few times and drags a bit toward the end, however, the dialogue and the characters in the latter feels more true and real... and ironically - since YSL was the film that had access to the archives, SL is the better "fashion movie".
I like the characters more in SL - ironically also Pierre Bergé whom I find kind of creepy in YSL, even though, Bergé approved of that movie and not the other one. Well, I liked Yves himself equally in both. Ulliel and Niney are both great.
None of the movies seduced me, though. I thought I would be head over heels with the Parisian night life, the fashion, the bohemians, the it-girls, the beauty, the art and the hedonism of those with funds... bot I wasn't. Both films left be sad and a bit repulsed. Not much happiness in neither film except for the "empty" happiness of drugs, booze and kinky sex, it seemed to suggest. I like partying and usually I wanna smoke cigarettes and drink champagne when people in movies do so, but not in these.

Both movies sort of fails in terms of their potential. The best of both and a lot of editing, and we might have gotten one great movie instead of two mediocre.

It is fun, though, to compare the two. Cause' a lot of times they were actually very simular. They did not contradict each other and featured many of the same moments and the same people and seem to agree on what was the most dramatic events in his life and his career. I wish one of the movies, though, had had a bit more fun instead of both going all melodrama...

Also, with both movies focusing so much on the relationship between Yves and Jacques de bascher, I really am curious and confused about Jacques also being in relationship with Karl Lagerfeld - another iconic fashion designer. That is just so weird to me - it's already foreign to me with open relationships, but these two designers with the same man?! I kind of wanted to know more about that drama. Especially since YSL suggested Karl and Yves was hanging with the same people but sort of disliked each other from the get-go.
Can the next movie please just be a Karl vs Yves-movie?

I have only seen Saint Laurent and I found it FAR from boring. It was blunt but beautiful.