"Bonjour Tristesse" is set in the present day but pulls from vintage aesthetics. It "exists out of time" and taps into a "classic Hollywood or classic French New Wave" sensibility, Sevigny said.

Though Bonjour Tristesse has also since been made a couple of times for French TV, this is the first major international film version since Preminger’s and it is a gorgeous-looking , quite ...

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 ...

When Bonjour Tristesse, the debut novel by then 18-year-old first-time author Françoise Sagan, was first published in 1954, it became nothing short of a literary sensation.

Published in 1954 when Sagan was only 18 years old, “Bonjour Tristesse” shocked critics for its frank account of female sexuality over 2 million copies, one of the biggest bestsellers in the ...

One of the best decisions first-time filmmaker Durga Chew-Bose made in her adaptation of the French novel “Bonjour Tristesse” was to cast Chloë Sevigny. An “It Girl” during the 1990s, appearing in ...

A French literary classic, “Bonjour Tristesse” (translates as “Hello Sadness”) was a publishing sensation in 1954 with its wise beyond her years 18-year-old author Francoise Sagan.

Chew-Bose, who directed and wrote the screenplay for “Bonjour Tristesse,” has also been tapped to receive one of the festival’s filmmaker tribute awards at a fundraising gala on Sunday night.

Set in the countryside of France during the summertime, “Bonjour Tristesse” follows the father-daughter duo of Cécile and Raymond. The quiet slice of life for the top 1 percent follows these two as ...

With its cool, laconic language, “Bonjour Tristesse” caught the spirit of the 1950s — and became an international best-seller, catapulting Sagan, who was herself a teenager when she wrote it ...

Francoise Sagan became a sensation at 18 for writing "Bonjour Tristesse," her mega-selling novel of a rich teenager's treachery toward her father's mistress. In August 1953, the bored and bohemian ...