Bonjour Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse is a 1958 drama film in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on the novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot and Geoffrey Horne, and features Juliette Gréco, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt and Roland Culver. It was released by Columbia Pictures. This film had color and black-and-white sequences, a technique unusual for the 1950s, but widely used in silent movies and early sound movies.
Plot
Cécile is a wealthy, free-spirited, idiosyncratic young woman. While she loves her playboy father Raymond dearly (and he loves her dearly), she is bored by suitors and the activities that interest them. While dancing to a performance of "Bonjour Tristesse," she wonders if she will ever find happiness again after what happened a year ago when she was 17 that summer on the French Riviera. The rest of the film chronicles the events of that summer in flashback.
More details
| author | Arthur Laurents Françoise Sagan |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Otto Preminger |
| editor | Helga Cranston |
| genre | drama saga |
| keywords | even french riviera late wife law student way of life young woman |
| musicBy | Georges Auric |
| producer | Otto Preminger |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| recordedAt | Monaco Paris Saint-Tropez |
| theme | dance |