UBertran Bonello buyela emuva ku Cannes lapho angcweliswa khona ngo-2001 ngefilimu yakhe yesibili ethi "Le pornographe", ifilimu eyawina uMklomelo weFipresci.
Ngemuva kokuphinda emqhudelwaneni ngo-2003 ngefilimu yakhe elandelayo ethi "Tiresia" futhi ngo-2011 ne-"L'Apollonide", uBertrand Bonello uzophinde aqhudelane nePalme d'Or ngefilimu yakhe entsha "u-Laurent".
Kulesi senzakalo, umqondisi waseFrance unesibindi nge-biopic yomunye wezibalo ezibaluleke kakhulu kwezemfashini, umklami u-Yves Saint Laurent, amvusa efilimini. UGaspard Ulliel, esambona eminyakeni embalwa edlule njengo-Hannibal Lecter ku-"Hannibal: Origin of Evil."
"USaint Laurent" ugxile kuphela eshumini leminyaka empilweni yomklami wemfashini, phakathi kuka-1965 no-1976, lapho akha khona kokubili umlingani ozwelayo nosebenza naye. UPierre Bergé, azomnika ukuphila ekhasethini UJérémie Renier, esiwabone kumafilimu afana nethi "The Silence of Lorna" noma "White Elephant".
Kubalingisi singathola omunye wabesifazane abasebasha abathembisa kakhulu eminyakeni yakamuva, Léa Seydoux, a UValeria Bruni Tedeschi, okuthe kulo nyaka odlule wadlala okokuqala ifilimu yakhe yesithathu njengomqondisi "Un château en Italie" kanye Louis Garrel, umlingiswa oyinhloko ngokuqondile wefilimu yokugcina yesihlabani sakhe.