TIFF: "Bonjour Tristesse"... but with cell phones
by Matt St Clair
Photo Credit: Giacomo Bernasconi
When the 1958 film adaptation of the novel Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan was released, it was both a beacon for the arrival of star Jean Seberg and a showcase for six-time Oscar-nominated legend Deborah Kerr to play with her star persona. Kerr’s interpretation of the high-strung Anne Larsen was a send-up of her “proper English ladies” casting niché that simultaneously allowed her to play into her sex appeal seen previously in From Here to Eternity and An Affair to Remember.
The newest film adaptation from author-turned-director Durga Chew-Bose follows the same story beat-for-beat...
Photo Credit: Giacomo Bernasconi
When the 1958 film adaptation of the novel Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan was released, it was both a beacon for the arrival of star Jean Seberg and a showcase for six-time Oscar-nominated legend Deborah Kerr to play with her star persona. Kerr’s interpretation of the high-strung Anne Larsen was a send-up of her “proper English ladies” casting niché that simultaneously allowed her to play into her sex appeal seen previously in From Here to Eternity and An Affair to Remember.
The newest film adaptation from author-turned-director Durga Chew-Bose follows the same story beat-for-beat...
- 9/17/2024
- by Matt St.Clair
- FilmExperience
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