Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
85 %
Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 11 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis:
Set on the French Riviera, Otto Preminger's film concerns a wealthy Frenchman (David Niven) who openly cavorts with his mistress, under the watchful eye of his 17-year-old daughter, Cecile. Cecile embarks on her own steamy summertime affair with a boy named Phillipe (Geoffrey Horne). But... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Jean Seberg, Geoffrey Horne, Mylene Demongeot
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Has a glacial tone that gets covered with a lobster red French Riviera sunburn.
12/16/07 01:54 PM
Kerr, of course, is a standout talent in spite of script deficiencies, and Demongeot plays the role of a silly blonde well. The Riviera scenes are rich in eye appeal and Kerr's chic costuming by Givenchy adds another plus.
10/23/07 04:04 PM
Script deficiencies and awkward reading -- some lines are spoken as though just that -- have static results.
10/23/07 04:03 PM
Top Critic The flirtation with incest at the centre of this adaptation of Françoise Sagan's novel is tame by modern standards, but the evil scheming of Seberg as the daughter set on separating her father and his mistress is still forceful.
06/24/06 04:08 AM
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While some may be put off by Preminger's glossy presentation of the idle rich, his direction in Bonjour Tristesse engages the mind while it stimulates the senses.
01/09/04 05:18 AM
Among favorite cinephile pet auteurs, no one’s reputation has had a rougher ride than that of Otto Preminger’s.
12/08/03 08:40 PM
he overall ambiguity of the film and its refusal to make judgements mark it as ahead of its time, while the cast are first-rate, particularly Seberg, veering between impishly mischievous and spookily sinister.
05/24/03 08:08 AM
Top Critic Hollywood soap opera at its best, nicely done and still entertaining after many decades.
01/01/00 12:00 AM
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