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VHS : Bonjour TristesseIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Mylène Demongeot, Geoffrey Horne directed by: Otto Preminger  List Price: $19.98 Price: $14.00 You Save: $5.98 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780767808460 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 0767808460 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: July 21, 1998 Running Time: 94 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 1958-04 Sales Rank: 11628 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: Cool and introspective, Otto Preminger's sleek, stylish Bonjour Tristesse is one of his most understated films. Jean Seberg stars as a spoiled teenager who acts with a high-society sophistication beyond her years, and dapper David Niven is her playboy father, going through young female playmates like socks. Flitting through the French jet set and comparing conquests, they summer on the gorgeous French Riviera, where mature fashion designer Deborah Kerr enters their lives and wins Niven's heart. Seeing an end to her lifestyle, Seberg plots an end to the relationship with equal parts conniving ruthlessness and juvenile prankishness, too self-absorbed to even consider the brutal results of her actions. Told in flashback from a sleek but shadowy black-and-white Paris, the film melts into the vivid Technicolor of memory. Seberg's voiceover narration is arch, but her impish, often petulant performance is perfect, as is Niven's flippant, womanizing bachelor father (Preminger lets their curious, flirtatious intimacy hang like an unanswered question and a nervous subtext). Kerr's middle-aged working woman seems almost puritanical compared to the irrepressible travelers, but under her rules and limits lies an honest concern for a "child" who believes herself an adult. Preminger's camera prowls through the drama just removed enough to be respectful, and intimate enough to get under the characters' skin. Like the best of his dramas, there are no heroes or villains, only complex, flawed, achingly sympathetic characters. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - My Kiss Has No CaressJuliette Greco is perfection as the aging nightclub singer at a chic Paris boite, who sings to strangers night after night of a "street with no address." Irretrievably ravaged by time and perfidious love, Greco gives the part nearly everything she has; in her excellent Givenchy gown she bespeaks chic even as she allows emotion to tremble through her quack of a voice. As she sings the haunting title track, Jean Seberg is twirling around on the dancefloor simultaneously drinking Greco in and obsessing ... Read More Rating: - OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 24****1/2 1958. this film was based on Françoise Sagan bestseller Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel (P.S.) and was produced and directed by Otto Preminger. A wealthy playboy and his seventeen years old daughter Cécile live an insouciant life. They are spending the summer on the French Riviera when one of Raymond's old friend Anne comes to their house near the sea. Cécile imagines a scheme to get rid of the intruder when Raymond decides to marry Anne. Preminger chose two actors who already worked for him, David ... Read More Rating:  - Oh....ick...Big disappointment...an insincere, uninteresting, overly long, mis-cast, under-acted, under-written, and essentially uninteresting story about some smarmy, rich, child-like people who cannot grow up or find real happiness or meaning in their lives, and, worse, don't want to! So...ick. Go watch a good western or horror flick instead. Rating:  - 'Whoops'Would've been more captivating had it been the first time I'd seen this kind of movie, but it wasn't. Technical aspects held my interest -- especially the cinematography; the use of black and white for the present and color for flashbacks was effective. The performances were okay. Jean Seberg is easy on the eyes. Her real life story is more interesting than any of her film roles. It's an inkblot. Rating: - good product, not delivered on timeProduct is good. Not delivered on intended date. I paid extra for quick arrival, but it did not arrive as stated. Disappointing. Will consider this the next time I order anything on here again (if I do order anything). Browse for similar items by category:
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