Otto Preminger’s version of the celebrated Francoise Sagan best-seller, starring David Niven as a wealthy widowed French playboy whose 17-year-old daughter Jean Seberg’s scheme to destroy his engagement to former flame Deborah Kerr ends in tragedy., Francoise Sagan’s bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg. Seberg tolerates most of her father’s mistresses, but doesn’t know what to make of the prudish Deborah Kerr, who will not cohabit with Niven until after they’re married. Feeling that her own relation with her father will be disrupted by Kerr’s presence, Seberg does her malicious best to break up the relationship–only to be beaten to the punch by Niven, who despite his promises of fidelity to Kerr cannot give up his hedonistic lifestyle. The combination of the daughter’s disdain and the father’s rakishness drive Kerr to suicide. Niven and Seberg continue pursuing their lavish but empty lifestyle, though both realize that their lack of moral fibre has destroyed a life. The incestuous undertones of the original Sagan novel are only slightly downplayed in the film version; the “tristesse” (sadness) is visually conveyed by filming the Deborah Kerr flashback scenes in color and the opening and closing of the film in bleak black and white. Bonjour Tristesse was codirected by Otto Preminger, who’d previously discovered Jean Seberg for his benighted 1957 filmization of Saint Joan., A free-spirited young woman conspires to foil her playboy father’s attachment to a sensible family friend while simultaneously embarking on a torrid affair of her own, all during one summer on the French Riviera.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Bonjour Tristesse ” ?
A: The main cast includes David Niven,Jean Seberg,Deborah Kerr,Mylène Demongeot,Geoffrey Horne,Juliette Greco,Walter Chiari,Martita Hunt,Roland Culver,Jean Kent,David Oxley,Elga Andersen,Jeremy Burnham,Eveline Eyfel,Tutte Lemkow,John Palmer,Georges Périnal,Françoise Sagan,Ray Simm,Hubert de Givenchy,Helga Cranston,Tutte Lemkow,Arthur Laurents,Roger Furse.
Q: When Did the “Bonjour Tristesse” Released?
A: The Movie “Bonjour Tristesse” originally aired on 1958-03-07 and released in the year of 1957.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Bonjour Tristesse” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Bonjour Tristesse” ?
A: “Bonjour Tristesse” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
