The blogpost also looks at the 1958 movie, and a 2008 biopic about francoise sagan 19352004. A seventeenyearold daughter and her father are spending an uneventful, lazy summer on the french riviera until his girlfriend joins them and the teenagers habit of being in. With jean seberg, david niven, deborah kerr, mylene demongeot. Otto premingers classic ushered in a new wave of vibrant, technicolour filmmaking. May 23, 2014 bonjour tristesse, an award winning film blog focusing on current and classic, foreign, independent, and cult cinema.
Audreys dress, made by edith head after a givenchy sketch, was chic and girly, this one is glamorous. Little house on the prairie tribute videos by me recommended for you. Bonjour tristesse 1958 director otto preminger by the late 1950s, the arrival of brigitte bardot in roger vadims 1956 film and god created woman had put sainttropez and the wider riviera firmly on the map for jetsetters and filmmakers alike. Those american critics carped that seberg was immature and trying too hard and failing at becoming an adult. The opening sequences are filmed in black and white, traditionally reserved for flashbacks but here giving the viewer a melancholy feeling that feeds the story perfectly. Some viewers might find this distracting, but i love it as a plot device. Bonjour tristesse 1999 cast and crew anne deborah kerr travels to the french riviera to visit raymond david niven, the wealthy husband of her recently deceased friend. Cecile, her father and his girlfriend are having a fine old time living in the south of france until the dad decides it is time to marry a woman his age. Stewart, youll recall, was held in low regard by the american film press when she started work on clouds of sils maria, her acclaimed first. Bonjour tristesse 1954 is darker than the romantic book cover suggests. One of the most unique things about bonjour tristesse is that we start the story in current time filmed in black and white. Bonjour tristesse, despite a terrific performance by jean seberg, is an annoying film about annoying people, says david gritten. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Bonjour tristesse 1958 was jean sebergs second movie and her second one with the director otto preminger.
Only theatrical trailers, but by some happy occurrence, one of them happens to be for bonjour tristesse. Based on the stunning novel of the same title by francoise sagan, bonjour tristesse is the film that made jean seberg into an international star. The incestuous undertones of the original sagan novel are only slightly downplayed in the film version. Masterful filmmaking, and, thus far, perfectly pitched. Otto preminger filmed bonjour tristesse in 1957, with the delicious but illfated jean seberg as the teenage heroine, cecile, supported by deborah kerr, david niven and the juvenile milene. I looked around the internet for a list of books by women that were made into movies, and found a startling lack of results. But thats all and its a shame, since a serious critical reading of the film wouldve been a fitting gesture. Starring deborah kerr, david niven, jean seberg, mylene demongeot and geoffrey horne. Cecile, a precocious seventeenyearold played effortlessly by jean seberg breathless, and her libertine father raymond david niven escape from paris to their mediterranean villa. In paris, seventeenyearold cecile shares an empty, sybaritic life with her wealthy playboy father raymond, whom she addresses by his christian name. Cote dazur bonjour tristesse france lonely planet forum.
Seberg tolerates most of her fathers mistresses, but doesnt know what to make of. Otto premingers bonjour tristesse, by fred camper, a. Voir plus didees sur le theme francoise sagan, bonjour tristesse et bonjour tristesse film. Seberg tolerates most of her fathers mistresses, but doesnt know what to make of the prudish deborah kerr, who will not cohabit with niven until after theyre married. Both actress and producer will meet francoise sagan in paris tomorrow. Seberg tolerates most of her fathers mistresses, but doesnt know what to make of the prudish.
Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, raymond. There was no particular reason i wanted to read them other than that i heard so many readers speak of them, tho not about them. Bonjour tristesse 1958 when otto preminger announced in 1957 that his next project would be bonjour tristesse, based on the bestselling novel by francoise sagan, and that it would star jean seberg, colleagues and fellow members of the film industry were astonished. What an upanddown experience was bonjour tristesse, the film based on francoise sagans brief novel about a young girl with an unhealthy jealousy about her alleycat father. Cinemascope was often used with subjects almost absurdly well suited to the screens shape. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing bonjour tristesse near you. I think the siren makes some valid points in her bt post, but ive loved this movie since i first saw it on tv in the 1970s.
Bonjour tristesse 1999 stream and watch online moviefone. Bonjour tristesse by otto preminger deborah kerr, david. His previous film, an adaptation of george bernard shaws saint joan, had been a rare critical flop, with the teenage seberg singled out for the harshest criticism. Bonjour tristesse nudity, bonjour tristesse sex scene, bonjour tristesse nude scene, bonjour tristesse actress nude, bonjour tristesse sexy scene all credit to the original posters. Otto premingers 1958 bonjour tristesse one of the masterworks of the period used the relatively new format of cinemascope to present its five characters in various tableaux. Bonjour tristesse 1958 comedy drama from columbia pictures. Sebergs perfectly expressionless and beautiful face has no small part in making it work. Aug 28, 20 bonjour tristesse, despite a terrific performance by jean seberg, is an annoying film about annoying people, says david gritten. Bonjour tristesse, an award winning film blog focusing on current and classic, foreign, independent, and cult cinema. Sep 14, 2017 one of the most unique things about bonjour tristesse is that we start the story in current time filmed in black and white.
Preminger had let the nineteen year old naif vulnerably out on her own and she was unprepared. More like a patricia highsmith thriller, say, the talented mr. Preminger contrasts the characters tristesse sadness in a monochrome paris with flashbacks to a luminous colourfilled summer in the riviera. Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father raymond. Columbia tristars dvd of bonjour tristesse will be a treat to its confirmed fans, who cant have had too many opportunities to see it as intended in its cinemascope dimensions. It became an international sensation and seberg along with it. While cecile joins raymond and denise, his latest mistress, at a nightclub, she muses to herself that she feels surrounded by an invisible wall of memories and longs for the happiness that she felt the previous summer on the riviera. After her debut in hollywood, with her first role, at age nineteen, in otto premingers 1957 saint joan, and another preminger movie a year later, bonjour tristesse, this one filmed in france both poorly received, iowaborn jean seberg appeared in jeanluc godards. A frothy, sunkissed comic satire which just happens to deal with such jolly subjects as incest, depression, selfloathing, adultery and suicide, bonjour tristesse completely defies. It actually plays well much of the time, with the schmaltzy music of rod mckuen making a melodramatic.
Bonjour tristesse 1958 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Thorn tree forum country forums western europe france. Preminger came into bonjour tristesse with something to prove. Crush of the week jean seberg in bonjour tristesse. The film features alice faye, dana andrews, linda darnell and charles bickford. And so often i wonder, when hes alone, is he remebering t. How jean seberg made cinematic history in bonjour tristesse. Bonjour tristesse produced and directed by otto preminger in 1957, adapted from francoise sagans novel, published in 1954, written when she was 18. Joan, was a commercial flop and roundly criticized, as was sebergs performance in it.
French wikipedia says that besides in le lavandou and paris, parts of the movie have been filmed in sainttropez and montecarlo as well. Aug 12, 20 bonjour tristesse 1958 was jean sebergs second movie and her second one with the director otto preminger. For the final scene in bonjour tristesse, which was filmed in shepperton studios outside london, seberg was required to sit at a makeup table, gazing at herself as she applied cold cream to her face. Jul 31, 2019 vitals david niven as raymond, bon vivant single father french riviera, summer 1957 film. Bonjour tristesse french hello, sadness is a 1958 britishamerican technicolor film in cinemascope, directed and produced by otto preminger from a. Photo shows jean seberg and otto preminger rereading a few pages of bonjour tristesse at the hotel plaza athenee where they are staying. I always regarded it as a mirror into the inner workings of the young jean seberg at a transitional time in her life. Bonjour tristesse 1958, directed by otto preminger film. Favourite films, bonjour tristesse apologies for bringing you another favourite film post so soon after the last but as i have recently watched bonjour tristesse i wanted to post about it whist it was still fresh in my mind. But the flashback scenes which comprise the majority of the movie are filmed in glorious color.
Almost everything about this picture, which opened at the capitol yesterday, manifests bad taste, poor judgment and plain deficiency of skill, pronounced bosley crowther of the ny times. Bonjour tristesse 1958 movies, tv, celebs, and more. So here i am surrounded by my wall of memory i try to stop remembering but i cant. Fallen angel is a 1945 blackandwhite film noir directed by otto preminger, with cinematography by joseph lashelle, who had also worked with preminger on laura a year before. Its story, style, and characters are very different from holden caulfield and his crummy life, but it expresses a similar sort of teenaged confusion, longing, and disaffection a tender heart hidden behind a brave front and it left the same permanent mark.
Jean seberg photographed during the filming for bonjour tristesse. I was putting together a list of books that were made into movies that a new reader might want to start with, and i was struck by the fact that most of the book movie combos i could think of were written by men. Feb 11, 2016 a bigger splash has something of the erotic languor and implied daddydaughter issues of francoise sagans bonjour tristesse the. Bonjour tristesse may be second only to daisy kenyon as premingers most intuitive multicharacter study, presenting us with an opulent facade of wealth and playboy idyll that is slowly undermined by both the marginalia of premingers vast frames and the increasing chaos beneath the actors carefree surfaces. But more than the design qualities of this little black dress, its the deeper meaning it reveals that weighs in the most. Perversely, the past flashback portions are filmed in color. A spoilt teenage girl tries to mess up her fathers plans for marriage in this drama. Hope bryce background thanks to otto premingers direction and georges perinals lush color cinematography that captures the richness of the french riviera, the visual delights of bonjour tristesse secure its. Her attempts to create an ordinary family bring out ceciles.
Lionel kazan remembers the filming of classic french film bonjour. In bonjour tristesse, a young jean seberg showed the powerful message a short do can send out. For instance, preminger occasionally seems to be putting undue stress on the most salacious elements of francoise sagans potboiler. But its goodbye happiness and bonjour tristesse hello sadness when the plan takes an unexpected turn. David niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertineinthemaking jean. Happy to live the luxurious lifestyle they both crave, free.
A first viewing of bonjour tristesseand, to some extent, many other preminger filmstends to accentuate the seeming multitude of faults even as one revels in premingers remarkable filmmaking savvy. Francoise sagans bittersweet novel bonjour tristesse is given a sumptuous riviera filmed screen treatment. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. David niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertineinthemaking jean seberg. Films often portray short hair on women as a product of illness, or even criminality. May 17, 20 he was the designer for bonjour tristesse and i think he was in charge with the more formal part of the wardrobe in the movie, whereas hope bryce coordinated the rest of the costumes. Mar, 2011 apologies for bringing you another favourite film post so soon after the last but as i have recently watched bonjour tristesse i wanted to post about it whist it was still fresh in my mind. Bonjour tristesse is a 1958 britishamerican technicolor film in cinemascope, directed and produced by otto. Bonjour tristesse french hello, sadness is a 1958 britishamerican technicolor film in cinemascope, directed and produced by otto preminger from a screenplay by arthur laurents based on the novel of the same name by francoise sagan. Still, artistically the 18yearolds debut book was more cohesive than otto premingers movie. When anne, raymonds old love interest, comes to raymonds villa, cecile is afraid for her way of life. The siren loved the book as a teen, but it had not aged well when she revisited it. Jean will play the leading part in bonjour tristesse, a film based on francoise sagans famous novel.
On holiday in the south of france, she is seduced by the sun, sand and her first lover. I think i prefer this little black dress worn by jean seberg in bonjour tristesse 1958 to the one worn by audrey hepburn in sabrina 1954. Seberg did not have a lot of range or experience as an actor. The life of laura ingalls wilder tribute little house on the prairie tv show theme song duration. Theres a sometimesembarrassing movie called joanna from 1969 that attempts a very bonjour tristesse style jet set ambience, only inflected with softfocus tv commercial visuals telephoto lenses, fragmented cutting, helicopter shots. The director wanted her to appear totally expressionless but also wanted the camera to capture tears welling up slowly in her eyes. Seen with fresh eyes, all the seberg and saint joan hype now forgotten, bonjour tristesse appears modern and vibrant.