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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Not For Children Movie Release: 1957 DVD Release: 12/16/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 33 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 10 Genres: Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama, Melodrama

Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel -Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg. Seberg tolerates most of her father's mistresses, but doesn't know what to make of the prudish Deborah Kerr, who will not cohabit with Niven until after they're married. Feeling that her own relation with her father will be disrupted by Kerr's presence, Seberg does her malicious best to break up the relationship--only to be beaten to the punch by Niven, who despite his promises of fidelity to Kerr cannot give up his hedonistic lifestyle. The combination of the daughter's disdain and the father's rakishness drive Kerr to suicide. Niven and Seberg continue pursuing their lavish but empty lifestyle, though both realize that their lack of moral fibre has destroyed a life. The incestuous undertones of the original Sagan novel are only slightly downplayed in the film version; the "tristesse" (sadness) is visually conveyed by filming the Deborah Kerr flashback scenes in color and the opening and closing of the film in bleak black and white. Bonjour Tristesse was codirected by Otto Preminger, who'd previously discovered Jean Seberg for his benighted 1957 filmization of Saint Joan. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Deborah Kerr - Anne Larsen
David Niven - Raymond
Jean Seberg - Cecile
Mylène Demongeot - Elsa Mackenbourg
Geoffrey Horne - Philippe
Jean Kent - Mrs. Lombard
Roland Culver - Mr. Lombard

Otto Preminger directs David Niven, Jean Seberg, and Deborah Kerr in the drama Bonjour Tristesse, which comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. This film has certainly never looked better on home video. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, but those who go to the movies and say "they don't make them like they used to" should certainly enjoy this fine release. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide