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Bonjour Tristesse (2024 film)

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Bonjour Tristesse
Directed byDurga Chew-Bose
Screenplay byDurga Chew-Bose
Based onBonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Produced by
  • Wolfgang Mueller
  • Benito Mueller
  • Julie Viez
  • Katie Bird Nolan
  • Lindsay Tapscott
  • Christina Piovesan
  • Noah Segal
Starring
CinematographyMaximilian Pittner
Edited byAmélie Labrèche
Music byLesley Barber
Production
companies
Distributed byElevation Pictures
Release date
  • September 5, 2024 (2024-09-05) (TIFF)
Running time
110 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Canada
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish

Bonjour Tristesse is a 2024 film starring Chloë Sevigny, Lily McInerny and Claes Bang. It is an adaptation of the 1954 novel by Françoise Sagan. It is adapted and directed by Durga Chew-Bose in her feature length directorial debut.

The film premiered in the Discovery program at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]

Synopsis

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Cécile (McInerny), and her widowed father Raymond (Bang) are spending the summer in the south of France with his latest flame, Elsa (Harzoune). However, the equilibrium is disrupted with the arrival of Anne (Sevigny), who is an old friend of Cécile’s parents.[2]

Cast

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Durga Chew-Bose, the director, as well as Chloë Sevigny and Lily McInerny, actors, at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada

Production

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Film Constellation are selling distribution rights to the contemporary adaptation written and directed by Durga Chew-Bose.[3] Producers of the project include Babe Nation Films’ Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott for whom it took three years to secure rights to the novel,[4][5] and for whom it had been a seven year project prior to the commencement of shooting.[6] Also producing are Elevation Pictures’ Noah Segal and Christina Piovesan, Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films and Cinenovo’s Julie Viez. Executive producers are Fabien Westerhoff for Constellation Productions, Suzanne Court, and Françoise Sagan’s son Denis Westhoff. Principal photography got underway in Cassis in the South of France in May 2023.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Zac Ntim, "TIFF 2024: Laura Carreira’s ‘On Falling’ & ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Starring Chloë Sevigny Among Titles Set For Discovery Sidebar" Archived July 24, 2024, at the Wayback Machine. Deadline Hollywood, July 24, 2024.
  2. ^ "Chloe Sevigny, Claes Bang, Lily McInerney Star in Bonjour Tristesse". usa.topnews.media. May 16, 2023. Archived from the original on May 17, 2023. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
  3. ^ Tabbara, Mona (May 16, 2023). "Cannes 2023: the buzz titles from the UK". Screen Daily. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
  4. ^ Lewis, Carly (August 30, 2019). "TIFF 2019: How do you make a film that women want to see, and not what men think they want to see?". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on May 17, 2023. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
  5. ^ "Fifth Wave Profile Series: The Telling Stories of Babe Nation". cfccreates. September 15, 2020. Archived from the original on May 17, 2023. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
  6. ^ Townsend, Kelly (February 10, 2023). "How Babe Nation hit casting gold with Alice, Darling". Archived from the original on March 19, 2023. Retrieved May 17, 2023.
  7. ^ Wiseman, Andreas; Goodfellow, Melanie (May 16, 2023). "Chloë Sevigny, Claes Bang, Lily McInerny & Nailia Harzoune Lead Adaptation Of Françoise Sagan's Classic Novel 'Bonjour Tristesse'; South Of France Shoot Underway — Cannes Market". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 19, 2023. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
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