‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Review: Chloë Sevigny Feels Miscast in Female-Driven Retelling of Françoise Sagan’s Novel

‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Review: Once Adapted by Otto Preminger, Françoise Sagan’s Novel Gets Another Cinematic Freshening

TIFF: Filmmaker Durga Chew-Bose takes on the tale of a teenage ennui brought to unexpected life for her sharp feature debut.

‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Review: Chloë Sevigny and Claes Bang Headline a Handsome Misfire of an Adaptation

Lily McInerny also stars in this updated take on Françoise Sagan's 1954 coming-of-age story, about a young woman meddling in her father's love life.

‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Review: Chloë Sevigny Feels Miscast in Female-Driven Retelling of Françoise Sagan’s Novel

The 1958 version of “Bonjour Tristesse” is everything Hollywood seems to be wary of these days: a notoriously mean, allegedly misogynistic filmmaker’s interpretation of a book written by and about a French teenage girl. “He used me like a Kleenex and then threw me away,” Jean Seberg said of director Otto Preminger. Well, get out […]