Bonjour Tristesse
Otto Preminger directed this highfalutin soap opera based on Françoise Sagan’s best-selling book written when she was just 18. Coincidentally the book and film center around an 18-year-old named Cecile, played in the film by Jean Seberg. David Niven is her playboy father and Deborah Kerr is the beautiful usurper who threatens to come between daughter and daddy. Georges Périnal (1940s The Thief of Bagdad) did the gorgeous Cinemascope photography. In 2024 Canadian filmmaker Durga Chew-Bose directed a new version of Sagan’s book.
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About Daniel Kremer
San Francisco filmmaker Daniel Kremer has provided audio commentary tracks for Kino Lorber, Shout! Factory, AGFA, and Scorpion disc releases, and essays for Twilight Time special editions. His acclaimed epic-length film Overwhelm the Sky (2019), adapted from a 1799 American Gothic novel, was screened internationally in classic roadshow format, complete with overture, intermission, and printed souvenir programs. These deluxe screenings received many accolades before Kino Lorber acquired distribution rights. Kremer's book Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films was published through Patrick McGilligan's Screen Classics Series in 2015. He is currently under contract at Oxford University Press for the first book about Joan Micklin Silver. His other films include the independent dramas Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015) and Ezer Kenegdo (2017). He enjoys doing commentary tracks with fellow TFH guru Allan Arkush.