Bonjour tristesse david niven biography

1958 film

Bonjour Tristesse (French "Hello, Sadness") is a 1958 British-American Technicolor film in CinemaScope,^[2] directed and produced by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on the novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan.

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. It was released by Columbia Pictures.

Bonjour tristesse david niven biography

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.

Plot

Cécile is a wealthy, free-spirited, idiosyncratic young woman.

While she loves her playboy father Raymond dearly (and he loves her dearly), she is bored by suitors and the activities that interest them. While dancing to a performance of "Bonjour Tristesse," she wonders if she will ever find happiness again after what happened a year ago w