Sagan (2008)

Directed by

Diane Kurys

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

France

Runtime

2h

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A biographical film about French author Françoise Sagan. It follows her rise to fame after her debut novel Bonjour Tristesse and her later struggles with addiction, money problems, and complicated romances.

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What happens

Sagan is a 2008 French biographical film, directed by Diane Kurys, starring Sylvie Testud as French author Françoise Sagan and Pierre Palmade as a dancer and a society man, Jacques Chazot, who was very well known in France. The film starts in the mid-1950s as Sagan (then still known under her real name Quoirez) closes a publishing deal for her controversial debut novel Bonjour Tristesse. The film then follows Sagan's road to fame, her drug abuse, alcoholism, and gambling, her hedonistic lifestyle spending too much and becoming poor, as well as several complex love affairs with both men and women. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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