Bonjour tristesse (1958)

Directors

Otto Preminger

Cast

Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Mylène Demongeot, Geoffrey Horne, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt, Roland Culver, Jean Kent, Juliette Gréco

The story

Cécile is a spoiled, free-spirited, and idiosyncratic teenage girl who shares a life of luxury and frivolity with her widowed father Raymond, a wealthy playboy. At a nightclub in Paris with Raymond and his latest mistress, Cécile wonders if she will ever find happiness again as she felt at the beginning of the previous summer on the French Riviera, when she was 17 years old. In a flashback to the previous summer, Cécile and Raymond are enjoying their vacation at a villa on the Riviera with Raymond's latest conquest, the flighty and superficial Elsa, who is not much older than Cécile.

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