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Bonjour Tristesse (2024)

Romance | 110 minutes
2,60 5 votes

Genre: Romance

Duration: 110 minuten

Country: Canada / Germany

Directed by: Durga Chew-Bose

Stars: Lily McInerny, Claes Bang and Chloë Sevigny

IMDb score: 5,7 (1.592)

Bonjour Tristesse plot

Teenager Cécile spends the summer in a villa in the South of France. She keeps company with her widowed father Raymond and his new love Elsa. One day, the famous fashion designer Anne, who was a good friend of Cécile's mother, comes to visit them. Over time, Cécile discovers some truths about both her loved ones, who are only human despite their status, and about herself.

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pampelonne

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Visually stunning with great attention to detail.

Furthermore, the story is told from the perspective of 17-year-old Cecile. It is a bit of a coming-of-age story.

It helps if you have read the book; the story is set in the 1950s.

The execution is nicely done, but I found it very boring.

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blurp194

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Yesterday I watched the original film from 1958, tonight the remake from 2024 – about seventy years later – three, with a bit of goodwill four generations, and longer than I have lived. Durga Chew-Bose's first film, and what a calling card she presents with it. You have to admire her nerve, a remake of a classic that remains untouchable after so much time.

And extra credit because it isn't a tame remake, but a reinterpretation that stays closer to the book than the previous film, without kicking against it—if you're going to do a remake, do it this way, is what goes through my mind.

Fortunately, the cast is a bit of a letdown, and perhaps that is the only point where one might wonder if the budget didn't get in the way. It is not McInerny's fault; she is fine. But Claes Bang is miscast, absolutely cannot stand in David Niven's shadow, and is nowhere convincing as the irresistible knockout the role requires. Nor does Sevigny manage to make her role believable while someone like Harzoune comes anywhere near her – or is that just my personal opinion?

What this film has a huge edge over the original, in any case, is the better narration, and furthermore—however unexpected—that Lily McInerny visually fits better with how I had imagined Cécile from the book than Jean Seberg did. When the film was made, Seberg was perhaps already too worldly, too hip, and too mature to still be convincing as a young girl.

It's nice to see a remake again with its own character, its own vision of the source material, and enough guts to create something beautiful with it. I'm curious to see what Chew-Bose can do with a bigger budget, and I hope she gets the chance.

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