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Bonjour Tristesse on DVD

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Average rating: 56%
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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: 90 mins
Certificate: PG
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Dubbed: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
Released: 01/08/2005

Brief synopsis of 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.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

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.

Rating of 1 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

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.

Time Out

The flirtation with incest at the centre of this adaptation of Françoise Sagan's novel is tame by modern standards,... Read more on www.timeout.com

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Rated - 2 starsSoapy Stuff from Seberg

A customer from Whitley Bay , 25/08/2005

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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Rated - 3 starsI'm not sure I liked it

Chantal Chantal [Highly rated reviewer] , 25/03/2006

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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Rated - 2 starsJean Seberg's movie

A customer from Uckfield, Sussex , 02/03/2006

Jean Seberg plays the part of a carefree and undisciplined rich kid holidaying in the south of France with her equally undisciplined playboy father David Niven. The film is shot in black and white for the unhappy times and colour for her happy life. In the colourful life is Elsa, a pretty but dull girlfriend of her father’s. The story comes from a book of the same title by a 17-year old, which might explain the simplicity of the storyline. All in all an interesting film

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Rated - 2 starsJean Seberg's movie

Cathy Murphy from Uckfield, Sussex , 02/03/2006

Jean Seberg plays the part of a carefree and undisciplined rich kid holidaying in the south of France with her equally undisciplined playboy father David Niven. The film is shot in black and white for the unhappy times and colour for her happy life. In the colourful life is Elsa, a pretty but dull girlfriend of her father’s. The story comes from a book of the same title by a 17-year old, which might explain the simplicity of the storyline. All in all an interesting film

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Rated - 3 starsI'm not sure I liked it

Chantal Chantal [Highly rated reviewer] , 25/03/2006

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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Rated - 2 starsJean Seberg's movie

Cathy Murphy from Uckfield, Sussex , 02/03/2006

Jean Seberg plays the part of a carefree and undisciplined rich kid holidaying in the south of France with her equally undisciplined playboy father David Niven. The film is shot in black and white for the unhappy times and colour for her happy life. In the colourful life is Elsa, a pretty but dull girlfriend of her father’s. The story comes from a book of the same title by a 17-year old, which might explain the simplicity of the storyline. All in all an interesting film

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