One evening, Raymond receives a letter from Anne, an older woman, a dress designer, and a friend of Raymond's late wife, who will be staying at the villa. Cécile meets another vacationer, Philippe, a mysterious but attractive young law student, and the two quickly take a liking to one another.

The rest of the film chronicles the events of that summer in flashback.Ĭécile and Raymond are enjoying their vacation on the Riviera, the latter's latest mistress being Elsa, a flighty, superficial, vain woman. While dancing to a performance of 'Bonjour Tristesse,' she wonders if she will ever find happiness again after what happened a year ago when she was 17 that summer on the French Riviera. While she loves her playboy father Raymond dearly (and he loves her dearly), she is bored by suitors and the activities that interest them.

This film had color and black-and-white sequences, a technique unusual for the 1950s, but widely used in silent movies and early sound movies.Ĭécile is a wealthy, free-spirited, idiosyncratic young woman. The film stars Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot and Geoffrey Horne, and features Juliette Gréco, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt and Roland Culver. Bonjour Tristesse (French 'Hello, Sadness') is a 1958 British-American Technicolor film in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on the novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan.

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