Bonjour Tristesse (1958 film)

Bonjour Tristesse
Film poster, designed by Saul Bass
Directed byOtto Preminger
Screenplay byArthur Laurents
Based onBonjour tristesse
1954 novel
by Françoise Sagan
Produced byOtto Preminger
Starring
CinematographyGeorges Périnal
Edited byHelga Cranston
Music byGeorges Auric
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • 15 January 1958 (1958-01-15) (New York, US)
Running time
94 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$13.2 million[1]

Bonjour Tristesse (French "Hello, Sadness") is a 1958 British-American Technicolor film in CinemaScope,[2] directed and produced by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Arthur Laurents based on the novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Mylène Demongeot and Geoffrey Horne, and features Juliette Gréco, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt and Roland Culver. It was released by Columbia Pictures. This film had color and black-and-white sequences, a technique unusual for the 1950s, but widely used in silent movies and early sound movies.

  1. ^ Box Office
  2. ^ "Bonjour Tristesse". Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009. Retrieved 4 June 2013.