May 19, 2025
Trailers From Hell: Daniel Kremer on BONJOUR TRISTESSE
Otto Preminger directed this highfalutin soap opera based on Françoise Sagan's best-selling book written when she was just 18. Coincidentally the book and film center around an 18-year-old named Cecile, played in the film by Jean Seberg.
David Niven is her playboy father and Deborah Kerr is the beautiful usurper who threatens to come between daughter and daddy. Georges Périnal (1940s The Thief of Bagdad) did the gorgeous Cinemascope photography. In 2024 Canadian filmmaker Durga Chew-Bose directed a new version of Sagan's book.
