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Tervetuloa, ikävä

Original title: Bonjour tristesse
  • 19581958
  • SS
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
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"Bonjour tristesse" (Saul Bass Poster) 1958 Columbia Pictures
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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.

IMDb RATING
6.9/10
5.2K
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  • Director
    • Otto Preminger
  • Writers
    • Arthur Laurents(screenplay)
    • Françoise Sagan(based on the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Jean Seberg
    • David Niven
    • Deborah Kerr
  • Director
    • Otto Preminger
  • Writers
    • Arthur Laurents(screenplay)
    • Françoise Sagan(based on the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Jean Seberg
    • David Niven
    • Deborah Kerr
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 53User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 nominations total

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    Bonjour Tristesse
    Trailer 1:37
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    Jean Seberg in Tervetuloa, ikävä (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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    Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg at an event for Tervetuloa, ikävä (1958)
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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(screenplay)
      • Françoise Sagan(based on the novel by)
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    Storyline

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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

      Sung by Juliette Gréco

    User reviews53

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    Bonjour Tristesse
    A good-for-nothing, unhappy high society girl recalls a summer when she destroyed the love of her rich playboy father and his respectable bride, because she was afraid of finishing their hedonistic lifestyle.

    Well-acted, starry cast and very graciously made but, in atmosphere, oddly faithless adaptation of a sharply cynical novel, which tends to glamorize and ennoble its originally unlovable characters against luxurious backgrounds. It holds the interest, however, and the glossily colorful photography of the sunlit French Rivera in the past alternating with the bleakly black and white present, is particularly excellent.
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    • May 23, 2000

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    • Release date
      • March 28, 1958 (Finland)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Bonjour Tristesse
    • Filming locations
      • San Tropez Beach, Saint-Tropez, Var, France
    • Production company
      • Wheel Productions
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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