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| In 1954, without her parents’ knowledge, 18-year-old
Françoise Quoirez published a novel that was to earn
her instant celebrity and a revered place in French literature.
That novel was Bonjour Tristesse; its writer is better
known by her nom-de-plume, Françoise Sagan. The French
Film Festival UK marks Sagan’s life and work by screening
Diane Kurys’s new film with Sylvie Testud and Otto Preminger’s
celebrated adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse with Jean
Seberg. |
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SAGAN
(15)
Director Diane Kuris |
London
Ciné Lumière 14 November 6.00pm
Edinburgh Filmhouse 22 November 6.00pm
Warwick Arts Centre 24 November 6.30pm
Glasgow Film Theatre 28 November 1.30pm |
| Novelist Françoise Sagan
(a feisty César-nominated performance by Sylvie
Testud), became an overnight cultural sensation when she published
her first
novel Bonjour Tristesse in the Fifties, garnering a slew of
prizes and catapulting her to the top of the bestseller list.
Her life thereafter which the film follows until her death in
2004, is depicted as one long, intoxicated downhill ride, marked
by scandals, arrests and the occasional drugs overdose. Testud
gives an energetic yet understated performance, reveling in
the writer's legendary witty, straight talk, which she delivers
with excellent timing and finesse. Sagan was originally conceived
and shot as a mini-series for French television, consisting
of two 90 minute episodes. When producer Luc Besson saw the
film, he bought the rights and gave it a theatrical cinema release
a few months before its TV screening. Kurys, one of France’s
most respected female filmmakers, is best-known for her acclaimed
1983 film Coup de foudre. |
Cast
Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Jeanne Balibar, Arielle Dombasle,
Lionel Abelanski, Guillaume Gallienne, Denis Podalydes, Margot
Abascal, Silvie Laguna, Gwendoline Hamon, Chantal Neuwirth,
Samuel Labarthe, William Miller, Victor Sevaux, Alexis Michalik
Director Diane Kurys
2008. 120 mins
Int. Sales EuropaCorp
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BONJOUR
TRISTESS (15)
Director Otto Preminger |
Edinburgh
Filmhouse 22 November 3.30pm
Glasgow Film Theatre 28 November 4.00pm |
| Jean Seberg plays Sagan’s
teenage socialite Cecile, off to another high-society soiree
in a black-and-white Paris. Playboy dad David Niven is her nightly
partner for drinking and dancing. Cut for colour and a summer
interlude the previous year on the Riviera, the sun-dappled
idyll between fun-loving daughter and father, united in plush
hedonism, may harbour darker undertones (Mylène Demongeot,
as Niven’s newest fling, calls them “the perfect
marriage”), though their frivolity to Preminger is less
immoral than amoral, their blissful complacence just a cocoon
for a childlike ignorance of the instability of relationships,
life and the world. Seberg’s proper godmother, Deborah
Kerr, is invited for a few days and ends up as Niven’s
bride, as well as a potential spoilsport for their lifestyle.
Told not to see her beau (Geoffrey Horne) again, Seberg rushes
up to her room and sticks pins on a doll before chiding herself
in the mirror; next, she's tallying up points against Kerr and
decides the woman must go. |
Cast
Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Geoffrey Horne, Mylene
Demongeot
Director Otto Preminger
1958. 93 mins
Int. Sales Park Circus
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