Bonjour Tristesse
Cecile and her father Raymond live a luxurious life, filled with pleasure-seeking excesses. All this is threatened, however, when Raymond decides to marry Cecile's conservative godmother, Anne. Desperate to maintain her lifestyle, Cecile plots to drive Anne away... Based on Francoise Sagan's bestselling novel. Read more
| Starring | Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylene Demongeot |
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| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Genres | Drama |
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Bonjour Tristesse
Cecile and her father Raymond live a luxurious life, filled with pleasure-seeking excesses. All this is threatened, however, when Raymond decides to marry Cecile's conservative godmother, Anne. Desperate to maintain her lifestyle, Cecile plots to drive Anne away... Based on Francoise Sagan's bestselling novel.
| Starring | Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylene Demongeot, Geoffrey Horne, Juliette Greco, Walter Chiari |
|---|---|
| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 01 Aug 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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Otto Preminger's Riviera-set romantic drama stars David Niven as the widower whose affair with Deborah Kerr is subverted by his daughter, Jean Seberg. Loosely based on the novel by Françoise Sagan, it's fluffy stuff, enjoyable for Niven's deft playing and for Seberg, whose radiant performance caused a stir not unlike the one caused by Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. The film was a huge hit in France, where Preminger was second only to God in the eyes of critics of the time such as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Seberg became an overnight cult sensation, starring in Godard's debut feature A Bout de Souffle the following year.
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The novel's rather repellent characters are here played like royal personages against a background of Riviera opulence. The result is very odd but often entertaining, especially when it slips into self-parody.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Soapy Stuff from Seberg
I don't suppose many people have ever heard of this film, but it's well worth seeing , if only for the central performance of Jean Seberg. She plays a spoilt brat teenager who is holidaying on the French Riviera with her father (David Niven), a widower with a constant supply of young girlfriends. Into the mix comes Deborah Kerr, who tries to impose some discipline into the girl's life, after agreeing to marry Niven, with unhappy consequences. The film is well acted by Niven and Kerr, but Seberg is especially effective as the lovable/horrible teenager who realises too late her schemes can have unpleasant results. Beautifully photographed in CinemaScope, with some sequences in black and white, but mostly in ravishing Technicolor. Not to everyone's taste,this film will appeal to fans of 1950's Douglas Sirk or 'Peyton Place' type movies.
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I'm not sure I liked it
You can admire that F Sagan wrote this book when she was a teen but the story is simple and the film has aged.
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- Chantal
- Posted 25 Mar 2006 23:39
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