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Mood:
- EmotionalTouching
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Plot:
- Single ParentComing of AgeParents and ChildrenTeenage LifeLifestyleYouthFamily RelationsWomanizer more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeignMelodramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- 50s
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Place:
- EuropeFranceFrench Riviera
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- Partly B&W
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Bonjour tristesse, 1958
English
USA
Profile of Bonjour tristesse
Bonjour tristesse can be described as emotional and touching. The plot revolves around a single parent, coming of age, and teenage life. The main genres are drama, foreign, and romance. In terms of style, Bonjour tristesse is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. Bonjour tristesse is located in the French Riviera. It takes place in the 1950s. Visually, it is partly black and white. Bonjour tristesse is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Bonjour tristesse
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 when Cecile's straight-laced godmother, Anne (Deborah Kerr), expresses disapproval toward the girl's fling with Phillipe, Cecile devises a scheme to drive her godmother away--which causes a tragic turn of events. Based on the novel by Francoise Sagan.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | April 1958 |
| Runtime: | 93 min |
Cast and Crew
as Anne Larson
as Raymond
as Cecile - Raymond's daughter
as Elsa
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