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      Sagan

      2008 3 hr. 0 min. Biography List
      0% 11 Reviews Tomatometer 58% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Author Françoise Sagan pursues a notorious road to fame. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member A confusing look on the famed French author's life. The only draw of Sagan is its lead actress, Sylvie Testud, in a performance reminiscent of Marion Cotillard's in La Vie En Rose. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Il reste encore de bons film francais! Acteurs impeccables, mention speciale a S. Testud qui est enorme dans ce role. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I didn't know Françoise Sagan before watching the movie, so I don't know if they succeed to show who she was really, but I think it's a good movie! I liked the realism of the acting (all the actors were good) and the fact that we see her social life's condition and health when she was old. I dove into a lot of thinking when I was watching her. The movie doesn't have any judgment ! I was fascinated about the character and it gave me the motivation to read some of her books! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Bonjour tristesse ... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review walter m "Sagan" is an anecdotal and breezy biopic about Francoise Sagan(Sylvie Testud), nee Quoirez, the famed French writer, whose best scene involves a very mischievous dog. Almost as a lark, she writes "Bonjour Tristesse" which turns her into an overnight success and is soon to be a major motion picture starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg. I would have liked to have seen a little about this adaptation, as it would have enhanced the surrealism of Sagan's whirlwind life. All is not smooth sailing, however, as she is attacked by critics, who doubt that she in fact wrote her first novel and then her later work as 'minor music.' Otherwise, there is not that much on her writing, giving the emphasis of the movie over to her tumultuous personal life. If she had not spent so much time enjoying herself with her extended family of friends and lovers of both genders, then this could have easily just been another cautionary tale about becoming a success too soon.(She took up an assumed name to write, so her respectable family would not be afraid people thought she was writing about them.) With her first earnings, she buys a sports car, which she eventually crashes. After a win at the roulette wheel, she buys a country estate where Sarah Bernhardt once spent the night. So, it must come as something of a shock when she makes it to old age, despite the copious use of drugs and alcohol(the welcome playing of "One Night in Bangkok" is entirely appropriate), which she never prepared for, encapsulating the very ephemeral nature of life, just as her writing still lives on. (Originally reviewed in the blog section on 6/22/2010.) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Yawn. This film is part of the problem, not the solution. For French eyes only. You do not need to see it. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) Edited down from its original incarnation as a two-part TV mini-series, the film in memory becomes a series of scenes with Sagan staggering about dropping drunken bons mots. Nothing can redeem this laughable material. Rated: 2/5 Oct 7, 2010 Full Review Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald What really damns it as literary biography is that it gives you little incentive to go back to her books. Rated: 2.5/5 Oct 6, 2010 Full Review Simon Miraudo Quickflix [The film] traps Franoise in a film so bland you would think it was depicting the lives of Isaac Funk and Adam Wagnalls and their attempts to publish a cheap, yet informative, encyclopedia. Rated: 1.5/5 Mar 21, 2011 Full Review Julie Rigg MovieTime, ABC Radio National This biopic, from respected film maker Diane Kurys gives Sylvie Testud a chance to channel this witty, amusing woman and let us think about her life. But it bustles along so fast my sympathy was only intermittently engaged. Oct 8, 2010 Full Review Jim Mitchell Trespass If Sagan is an underappreciated literary icon as the filmmakers imply, they've failed to restore her memory any glory with this underwhelming, uninspiring portrait. Oct 8, 2010 Full Review Craig Mathieson sbs.com.au To reference the other Sagan, this movie is something of a black hole. Then again, it wasn't conceived as a movie. Rated: 2/5 Oct 7, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Author Françoise Sagan pursues a notorious road to fame.
      Director
      Diane Kurys
      Executive Producer
      Catherine Grandjean
      Screenwriter
      Diane Kurys, Claire Lemaréchal, Martine Moriconi
      Genre
      Biography
      Original Language
      French (Canada)