Restored Bonjour Tristesse Heading Back to UK Cinemas
HomeRestored Bonjour Tristesse Heading Back to UK Cinemas
Posted July 3, 2013 05:26 PM by Webmaster
Based on the acclaimed novel by Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse, a Sony Pictures film by Otto Preminger, has now been digitally restored and will be re-released in UK cinemas from 30th August 2013, opening at BFI Southbank.
A bittersweet father-daughter tale dramatising the extremes of relationships, Bonjour Tristesse marries lush French Riviera with classic Hollywood to delightful effect.
Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old played effortlessly by Jean Seberg (Breathless), and her libertine father Raymond (David Niven) escape from Paris to their Mediterranean villa. Preminger's use of black and white and colour cinematography is brilliant. He contrasts the characters' tristesse ('sadness') in a monochrome Paris with flashbacks to a luminous colour-filled summer in the Riviera. Happy to live the luxurious lifestyle they both crave, free from responsibility, the golden-skinned duo dedicate themselves to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. However, when Raymond decides to marry, Cecile's whimsical nature pushes her to lay down a path of destruction, affecting the lives of everyone involved.
A bittersweet father-daughter tale dramatising the extremes of relationships, Bonjour Tristesse marries lush French Riviera with classic Hollywood to delightful effect.
Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old played effortlessly by Jean Seberg (Breathless), and her libertine father Raymond (David Niven) escape from Paris to their Mediterranean villa. Preminger's use of black and white and colour cinematography is brilliant. He contrasts the characters' tristesse ('sadness') in a monochrome Paris with flashbacks to a luminous colour-filled summer in the Riviera. Happy to live the luxurious lifestyle they both crave, free from responsibility, the golden-skinned duo dedicate themselves to a life of free love, fast cars and hedonistic pleasures. However, when Raymond decides to marry, Cecile's whimsical nature pushes her to lay down a path of destruction, affecting the lives of everyone involved.