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One of the things that struck me while watching ā€œBonjour Tristesse,ā€ written and directed by the celebrated author Durga Chew-Bose, was a feeling of being — and I don't know how else to put it — ...
Set in the countryside of France during the summertime, ā€œBonjour Tristesseā€ follows the father-daughter duo of Cécile and ...
ā€œBonjour Tristesseā€ is set in the present day but pulls from vintage aesthetics. It ā€œexists out of timeā€ and taps into a ...
Returning to Françoise Sagan's novel made famous by Otto Preminger’s 1958 movie, writer-director Durga Chew-Bose makes an ...
ā€œBonjour Tristesseā€ works best as a sustained mood, as an evocation of long summer days that might not actually exist outside ...
The first rule of making a film of Bonjour Tristesse is that it must look splendid, and if nothing else, Durga Chew-Bose’s adaptation achieves that. Gently updating Françoise Sagan’s generational 1954 ...
A remake of the 1958 Bonjour Tristesse , once again finds the setting on the Riviera. Bonjour Tristesse, which means ā€œHello ...
But alongside their director, Sevigny and McInerny carefully remind us that fantasy and tragedy are interlinked. Chew-Bose’s ...
A French literary classic, ā€œBonjour Tristesseā€ (translates as ā€œHello Sadnessā€) was a publishing sensation in 1954 with its ...
Bonjour Tristesse isn’t a particularly enriching adaptation or entry into its genre, but it’s well-crafted and well-performed enough to be worth watching.
An adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s unforgettable coming of age novel by the same title, Durga Chew-Bose’s Bonjour Tristesse masterfully captures the complexity of relationships between women ...