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Release Date: 16 December, 2003 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $8.47 You SAVE: $21.48! Cast: |
Bonjour Tristesse Reviews
Seberg: The Haunted Pixie
For my money, "Bonjour Tristesse" is the best and most watchable example of Jean Seberg's film work, and that includes "Breathless". For one, a large part of her appeal is her physcial beauty, and "Bonjour" doesn't scimp on closeups or miss an opportunity to fill the screen with that incredible face, giving viewers delicious eyeful after eyeful of Jean
Directer Otto Preminger is also quitie sensitive to her appeal; in fact the whole film appears to have been written especially to showcase her unique charm as a sort of haunted pixie.
Deborah Kerr is excellent as the rather repressed love interest of David Niven, who is also pitch-perfect as Jean's philandering father. I won't give away the plot other than to say that it is a stylish and crisply told seeming light-comedy that suddenly takes a sharp turn into drama that is highly effective, and even a little shocking. Very modern sexual themes here for it's time, too.
If you only own one Seberg film, make it "Bonjour Tristesse". It's highly watchable from start to finish, stands up under repeated viewings, is gorgeously filmed, a perfect time capsule of when the rigid standards and fashions of the fifties were beginning to give way to the beatnick sixties, and captures Jean at her peak of youthful, enigmatic and mysterious beauty.
If only for Juliette
i've seen this movie several times on TV in the past...
Oh, it's a perfecly charming movie, especially for the not TOO young amongst us, who probably remember the older times in Paris and France best. For ME: I'd buy this film because it is one of those rare moments to see Juliette Gréco in action.
Gréco was extremely popular in the fifties as an avantgarde singer/ actress. Those were the days of the "existentialists" .I've met Miss Gréco personally and have been a fan of her art for years now.Where ever she's got a concert, you can hear a pin drop .....soooo different if you compare it too many concerts of todays artists. Miss Gréco you could call the true follow up of that other great French singer , PIAF !
so If you get the chance to see this movie, watch Juliette Gréco
in her small part and see if you're too under her spell....
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