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Bonjour Tristesse

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Anne (Deborah Kerr) travels to the French Riviera to visit Raymond (David Niven), the wealthy husband of her recently deceased friend. His pampered daughter, Cecile (Jean Seberg), afraid that the prim and proper Anne's visit may alter their hedonistic lifestyle, attempts to drive a wedge between the woman and her father, with the help of his young French mistress, Elsa (Mylène Demongeot). Little do they know that Anne's attitude hides a fragility and pain that may have tragic consequences.
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Richard Brody The New Yorker 05/16/2016
A brilliant dialectical filmmaker, Preminger extracts the last ounce of pathos from the anguish of the mute witness. Go to Full Review
Calum Marsh Little White Lies 08/29/2013
4/5
Jean Seberg is as captivating as ever in Otto Preminger's newly restored 1958 drama. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian 08/29/2013
5/5
Underneath the endless round of parties and nightclubs, there is a desperate, secret sadness, and Seberg's stare at the camera is haunting. Go to Full Review
Yasser Medina Cinefilia Jul 11
5/10
Preminger adopts a Mediterranean style here, bathed in color and opulence, but unfortunately, su narrative is unable to deliver anything emotional with its superficial melodrama about youth, freedom and family ties. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Zita Short InSession Film 02/10/2023
Watch Bonjour Tristesse and marvel at her strength and confidence. She was a rare creature and we should have had more actresses like Kerr... Go to Full Review
Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/19/2022
4/5
It meanders a bit and at times feels a little soapy, but its intelligence, craftiness, and style can’t be denied. Go to Full Review
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*** l Jun 21 early works of cinema of 6oys,later comes Godards Breatlesse with estonnishing Sieberg ,she has a short life ,unfortunately and greate fotogenyc beauty and charm,she gave magic roles for film history inspite of her short life ,films that she was in it become greate work of a film history... See more Jerry E @engelbach 11/21/2024 Bad acting doesn’t rescue an abominable script. Niven and Kerr are adequate. But Seberg’s artificial bubbliness is embarrassingly irritating. She has no idea how to convey a believable character, nor even say a line with a sense of truth. Truffaut must have been drunk. But Godard obviously saw something, for he got much better out of Seberg in “Breathless.” See more 07/29/2021 Opening credits sucked me right in. Beautiful graphics and music. Liked use of color and black and white, and flash backs. Thought Jean Seberg's acting was outstanding, and all of acting was very good. Enjoyed the lovely scenes of the French Riviera, and felt as if I were right there with the actors, smelling the pines and the salty sea. The end was a little overplayed and melodramatic, but that was probably how the novel ended. The scenes where the two girls are setting up David Niven's inevitable fall from grace are the only ones that are overlong and needed editing. It is an interesting and different movie. See more 06/20/2021 Very strange film. David Niven, Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg See more david f 04/18/2020 This is worth watching because Godard said that Jean Seberg was playing the same role that she did in his film, ‘Breathless' only three years later. It's about a carefree father and daughter who live on the French Riviera and whose somewhat decadent lifestyle has serious consequences for a woman they get involved with. See more 03/15/2019 A truly terrible film directed by a masterful director, Bonjour Tristesse is a film replete with awkward acting and unintentional bathos. Its only saving grace is that Jean Seberg's Cecile is unmistakably the influence for Godard's Patricia in Breathless which would go on to succeed where this film fails. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Anne (Deborah Kerr) travels to the French Riviera to visit Raymond (David Niven), the wealthy husband of her recently deceased friend. His pampered daughter, Cecile (Jean Seberg), afraid that the prim and proper Anne's visit may alter their hedonistic lifestyle, attempts to drive a wedge between the woman and her father, with the help of his young French mistress, Elsa (Mylène Demongeot). Little do they know that Anne's attitude hides a fragility and pain that may have tragic consequences.
Director
Otto Preminger
Producer
Otto Preminger
Screenwriter
Arthur Laurents
Production Co
Wheel Productions
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 15, 1958, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 15, 2010
Runtime
1h 34m
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