Bonjour Tristesse (film)

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Movie
German title Bonjour sadness
Original title Bonjour sadness
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1958
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Otto Preminger
script Arthur Laurents
Françoise Sagan
production John Palmer
Otto Preminger
music Georges Auric
camera Georges Périnal
cut Helga Cranston
occupation

Bonjour Tristesse is a CinemaScope color film shot in the USA in 1958 . It is based on the novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan .

action

The film begins with dreary, melancholy images in black and white. The 17-year-old Cécile dances with a friend in a bar, in the background Juliette Gréco sings “I've lost me, that's all I know” and thus reflects the mood in which Cécile finds himself. She hangs over depressive thoughts, wondering if she can ever be happy again. From the off we learn: She kills time so that the memory does not come back, the memory of a vacation that began so carefree.

The picture becomes colored. A white villa, yellow sand, deep blue sea and burning sun, the Riviera. Cécile spends cheerful days with her father Raymond and his changing women acquaintances. Right now it's Elsa, a dear fool. But they all fit together in their urge for an easy and carefree life. You don't care about anything these days and weeks. Cécile failed the exam, she and her father take it easy. She flirts superficially with law student Philippe, who thinks nothing of her frivolous views on life. He wants to change her, she just laughs and plays with him.

Her godmother, the fashion designer Anne Larsen, snows into this lotter life. At first, Cécile feels sympathy for the witty and relaxed woman. When Anne learns of Elsa's presence, she is not pleased, but she does not show it to Raymond.

Soon she interferes in Cecile's upbringing. She wants her to catch up on the exam and pulls Raymond on her side, who now demands of Cécile to learn more.

Cécile begins to hate Anne because she wins Raymond more and more to herself. She fears for her carefree life with her father. And all the more so when he tells her that he wants to marry Anne.

It is now high time for Cécile to act. She has a plan to prevent the marriage: Philippe and Elsa are supposed to make Raymond jealous so that he can return to Elsa. The plan works, Raymond pursues Elsa again and secretly makes an appointment with her. Anne discovers the lovers and learns Raymond's love vows. Full of disappointment, she runs away and speeds away in her car. Hours later, father and daughter are called to the place where Anne fell into the sea with her car - the seventh accident at this point. Cécile is sure that it was suicide, Raymond doesn't talk about it.

Father and daughter live again as they have always lived. Nevertheless, Cécile feels a great emptiness, a great pain. A feeling that feels good and hurts. She learned to love it like a friend. Every morning she says to him "Bonjour tristesse".

Age restriction

The film was classified in 1958 by the FSK as "harmful to young people". The release restriction “Not to young people under 18” still applies today.

Reviews

  • “This film is a marvel. With him, modern cinema began again ... Shot in France with American money, the film was quickly seen as the forerunner of another cinema ... the French Nouvelle Vague . " (Reclam, classic film)
  • Jacques Rivette (French director): "Preminger turns the humble schoolgirl novel into a pastiche masterpiece ."
  • "And in 'Bonjour Tristesse', his (Premingers) masterpiece ..." (Norbert Grob in: Filmregisseure, Reclam 1999)
  • "Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut celebrated the film with anthemic reviews, Jean-Luc Godard not only adopted the sketchy style for his debut ( Out of breath ), but also the female star: Jean Seberg." (Norbert Grob in: Otto Preminger, Berlin 1999)
  • “Otto Preminger filmed the successful novel ... in a cold, stylized ambience of luxury and boredom. The melodramatic and in its statement pessimistic film achieves only mediocre success with the audience and critics, despite the outstanding actors and the world-famous literary source. " (The Chronicle of the Film)
  • "Coherent Françoise Sagan film adaptation with wonderful pictures and a brilliantly playing Deborah Kerr." (Heyne Film Lexicon)

literature

swell

  • Reclam, Classic Films, Vol. 2
  • Reclam, film directors
  • The chronicle of the film, Chronik-Verlag
  • Illustrated film stage No. 4446

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonjour FSK [1]