Bonjour Tristesse

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Bonjour Tristesse ★★★ 1957

An amoral French girl (Seberg) conspires to break up her playboy father's (Niven) upcoming marriage to her stuffy godmother (Kerr) in order to maintain her decadent freedom. Preminger attempted, unsuccessfully, to use this soaper to catapult Seberg to stardom. Based on the novel by Francoise Sagan. 94m/B VHS, DVD . FR Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylene De-mongeot, Geoffrey Horne, Walter Chiari, Jean Kent; D: Otto Preminger; W: Arthur Laurents; C: Georges Perinal.

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