A bomb.
Bonjour Tristesse
1958 · 1h 34m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Otto Preminger
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Bonjour Tristesse
Overview
A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs.
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Top critics, in their words
The final shot is one of the most convincingly grief-stricken in cinema.
Niven and Kerr keenly satirize their onscreen iconographies-the cad and the goody-goody, respectively-but it's Seberg who cuts deepest.
Otto Preminger's formally dazzling 1958 film is an edifice constructed of contrasts.
Script deficiencies and awkward reading -- some lines are spoken as though just that -- have static results.
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