Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

Directed by

Otto Preminger

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

14

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 147 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl spends a carefree summer on the French Riviera with her father and his new lover, but tensions rise when she devises a plan to protect her easygoing life with him. The story moves between the bright present and a darker look back at the events that changed everything.

melancholicbittersweetsun-drenchedelegantcontemplativetensevisually lushslow-burn

What happens

Bonjour Tristesse ('Hello, Sadness') is a 1958 coming-of-age drama film in CinemaScope, produced and directed by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents, based on the 1954 novel by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot and Geoffrey Horne, and features Juliette Gréco, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt and Roland Culver. It was released by Columbia Pictures. This film had color and black-and-white sequences, a technique unusual for the 1950s, but widely used in silent films and early sound films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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