Bonjour Tristesse (film)

Bonjour Tristesse French Hello, Sadness is a 1958 BritishAmerican Technicolor film in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on the novel of the same title by Franoise Sagan. The film stars Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylne Demongeot and Geoffrey Horne, and features Juliette Grco, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt and Roland Culver. It was released by Columbia Pictures. This film had colour and black and white sequences, a technique unusual for the 1950s but widely used in silent movies and early talking films.

Despite his promises of fidelity to Anne, Raymond cannot give up his playboy life. Helped by Elsa Mylne Demongeot, Raymonds young and flighty mistress, Ccile does her best to break up the relationship with Anne. The combination of the daughters disdain and the fathers rakishness drives Anne to a tragic end.The film met with a lukewarm critical reception at the time. The BFIs Monthly Film Bulletin The best performance is David Nivens he gives his part a pathetic touch that the writing never attains. Jean Seberg, who speaks rather than acts her lines, turns in the least effective performance. Bonjour Tristesse is an elegant, ice cold, charade of emotions, completely artificial and eventually torpid. Others enjoyed it rather more and it had some unexpected friends. Franois Truffaut described Seberg as The best actress in Europe. JeanLuc Godard said The character played by Jean Seberg in Breathless was a continuation of her role in Bonjour Tristesse, I could have taken the last shot of Premingers film and started after dissolving to a title Three years later. A Guardian piece in 2012 described it as an example of Hollywoods golden age, and both its star and its famously tyrannical director are ripe for rediscovery. ........

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