Tervetuloa, ikävä

Original title: Bonjour tristesse

1958
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1h 34m

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6.9/10

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"Bonjour tristesse" (Saul Bass Poster) 1958 Columbia Pictures

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Drama Romance

Spoiled Cecile, 17, spends her summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy dad and Elsa. Anne, her late mom's friend, visits and brings changes to all.Spoiled Cecile, 17, spends her summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy dad and Elsa. Anne, her late mom's friend, visits and brings changes to all.Spoiled Cecile, 17, spends her summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy dad and Elsa. Anne, her late mom's friend, visits and brings changes to all.

Director
- Otto Preminger
Writers
- Arthur Laurents
- Françoise Sagan
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6.9/10

5.4K

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 nominations total

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"Bonjour Tristesse" Jean Seberg 1957 Columbia

Kim Novak in Paris, France visiting Otto Preminger on the set of "Bonjour tristesse" while filming at Maxime's 1957 © 1978 Bob Willoughby

Jean Seberg During Filming of "Bonjour Tristesse"

Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg at an event for Tervetuloa, ikävä (1958)

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Trivia
Otto Preminger always liked this film, although he felt the American critics did not do it justice. The film was a qualified success in France, yet American critics felt the film wasn't French enough, a detail that amused Preminger.

Goofs
We hear the Band at c.6'50" and we see a clarinet-player performing, but the music has no clarinet part whatsoever included at that point in the soundtrack. Later, when the clarinet does eventually join the soundtrack, the fingering of the player bears absolutely no relation to the music actually being heard.

Quotes
Cecile: It's getting out of control. I just wish I were a lot older or a lot younger.

Connections
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)

Soundtracks
Bonjour Tristesse
Music by Georges Auric
Lyrics by Arthur Laurents
Performed by Juliette Gréco

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a reflection on Seberg

This is an absorbing, intriguing and slightly bizarre film. I agree with the other comments here - the camera work is beautiful, the Riviera looks fab, Seberg is startling, and David Niven (how come no-one's mentioned his performance yet?) is a particularly slimy, lecherous old man. Seberg really does deliver an excellent performance. She's a fascinating person anyway, and here her ambiguity, her modernity, her beauty and her youth all come into their own. And the title song's fab too! Well worth a watch, if only to revel in the stunning scenery and Seberg's haunting screen presence.

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