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Bonjour Tristesse

Original title: Bonjour tristesse
  • 1958
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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"Bonjour tristesse" (Saul Bass Poster) 1958 Columbia Pictures
Official Trailer
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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
  • Stars
    • Jean Seberg
    • David Niven
    • Deborah Kerr
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    5.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Otto Preminger
    • Writers
      • Arthur Laurents
      • Françoise Sagan
    • Stars
      • Jean Seberg
      • David Niven
      • Deborah Kerr
    • 54User reviews
    • 54Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

    Videos1

    Bonjour Tristesse
    Trailer 1:37
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    Photos110

    Jean Seberg in Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
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    Kim Novak in Paris, France visiting Otto Preminger on the set of "Bonjour tristesse" while filming at Maxime's  1957 © 1978 Bob Willoughby
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    Jean Seberg
    Jean Seberg
    • Cecile
    David Niven
    David Niven
    • Raymond
    Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr
    • Anne Larson
    Mylène Demongeot
    Mylène Demongeot
    • Elsa
    Geoffrey Horne
    Geoffrey Horne
    • Philippe
    Juliette Gréco
    Juliette Gréco
    • Juliette Greco
    Walter Chiari
    Walter Chiari
    • Pablo
    Martita Hunt
    Martita Hunt
    • Philippe's Mother
    Roland Culver
    Roland Culver
    • Mr. Lombard
    Jean Kent
    Jean Kent
    • Mrs. Helen Lombard
    David Oxley
    David Oxley
    • Jacques
    Elga Andersen
    Elga Andersen
    • Denise
    Jeremy Burnham
    Jeremy Burnham
    • Hubert
    Eveline Eyfel
    • Maid
    Tutte Lemkow
    Tutte Lemkow
    • Pierre Schube
    • (uncredited)
    Maryse Martin
    • Undetermined Secondary Role
    • (uncredited)
    Jackie Raynal
    • Dancer
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Otto Preminger
    • Writers
      • Arthur Laurents
      • Françoise Sagan
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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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    7/10
    Another study in a teenage girl's destructive dislike for her widowed father's lover
    The films of Otto Preminger share for the most part a detached objectivity in their attitudes to character and moral issues…

    In "Bonjour Tristesse," his gamine protégé Cecile (Jean Seberg) is a very peculiar girl, maybe spoiled and willful and arrogant and lazy…

    Anne (Deborah Kerr) had made her look at herself for the first time in her life…And that turned her against her… And now, her father is not having fun anymore, which was probably another reason she decided to get rid of her… How carefully and how seriously she went about that decision, is the tale of Françoise Sagan, published in 1954, by the time she was nineteen…

    Raymond (David Niven) is a bundle of surprises… For him, it's such a wonderful fun to have Cecile for a daughter… And loving Anne doesn't mean that he loves his daughter any less… The wealthy playboy becomes serious from the moment that Anne arrived… He could never think of her as just someone to have fun with… He does have fun with Elsa (Mylène Demongeot) but that's a long way from being all he wants… Now, he has never wanted any woman the way he wants Anne…

    Anne spent her honeymoon by the sea 12 years ago… She had quite a debate with herself before coming down to the French Riviera… For knowing that Elsa was there, she got stupidly angry and decided to leave…Then the prospect of packing and looking for a hotel was too much after that long drive so she decided to stay…

    Being too sophisticated (maybe for discovering occupied territory), Anne was as suspicious of summer as she was of Raymond in spite of the fact that she knew him 15 years ago, and was quite sure that with him, nobody is safe…

    For Cecile, Anne is prim and prissy and prude… For a woman who hates vulgarities—even when they're funny—she could never be seriously interested in a man like her father… So part of her was angry, part was happy, all of her was excited… Her father had brought a girl to the seashore, made her go out in the sun and then when she was a mess of peeling, dropped her like a hot lobster… It was unfair… Yet even while she was angry at him, she was proud that he had gotten the unattainable Anne… Anne looks now softer… She moves easier… In the morning, she seems as though she had the most wonderful secret in the world…

    Suddenly she becomes aware of a great responsibility towards Cecile, as it would be good if she stops seeing Philippe (Geoffrey Horne) and studies for her philosophy examination…

    Cecile becomes furious at her interference… Anne wants her to study and not to see Philippe… So what shall it be? For her, there'll be a man to take care of her…And she doesn't need a diploma for that…

    Now she hates Anne… For her, she has changed her father…She'll change her and will change everything
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    • Release date
      • February 1958 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Dobar dan, tugo
    • Filming locations
      • San Tropez Beach, Saint-Tropez, Var, France
    • Production company
      • Wheel Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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