PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY MATT TYRNAUER

“Seems at first like pure escapist fun… But the film’s potent, bittersweet undertow makes it one for the ages.
It reveals one of the past century’s most elegantly lived lives – and a world that is slipping away even as the camera roll.”
– David Colman, The New York Times Style Magazine

“The luxe, rara avis world of the Italian couturier and fashion designer… fused with wit and self-deprecating humor. With great style and editing, the film captures the deep-seated relationship of two men, one a business genius and one a dressmaker who swept through the sixties on the hems of his delicate, feminine suits and fine evening dresses, favorites of Jackie O and Elizabeth Taylor. (Tyrnauer) took a difficult subject –
a fashion brand and its founders – and told the story of how fashion as art has to bend to the winds of commerce and modernity.”
– André Leon Talley, Vogue

“Amazing…you will love this…we see [Valentino] and [partner] Giancarlo lovingly bicker over dresses, fashion-show sets,
and even which café they first met at. And as if they're not adorable and hilarious enough, there are the clothes!
Glorious, glorious dress after dress coming to life before your very eyes!”
– Amy Odell, New York magazine online

“Matt Tyrnauer’s portrait of the great couturier Valentino is comic, acerbic, lyrical and has more than a touch of Fellini about it.”
– Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent (UK)

“(An ) affecting, disturbing and hilarious portrait of a till-death-do-us-part relationship.”
– Lee Marshall, Screen International

“Terrifically entertaining… affectionate, absorbing and, above all, huge fun!”
– Mark Salisbury, Premiere.com

“Entertaining and even poignant… capture(s) the swan song of haute couture’s most long-standing icon.”
– Natasha Senjanovic, The Hollywood Reporter

MATT TYRNAUER, LONGTIME VANITY FAIR EDITOR AND WRITER, TAKES ON HAUTE COUTURE ICON VALENTINO, a man whose fabulous gowns have graced the bodies of the world’s most glamorous women for nearly five decades. The film was shot over two years — in Paris, Rome, London, NY, Gstaad, and aboard Valentino’s yacht — during a period when rumors of the designer’s retirement were swirling about him and partner Giancarlo Giammetti. The filmmaker had extraordinary access to these men, partners in both business and life, whose arguments over the need for more ruffles or the appropriateness of sand dunes for a runway show are inevitably reduced to the intimacy and warmth that are the bedrock of their relationship.

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USA • 2008 • 96 MINS • IN ENGLISH, ITALIAN & FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • Filmsource Information