How Jean Seberg Made Cinematic History in Bonjour Tristesse

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The languorous sexual heat of Bonjour Tristesse continues to resonate 70 years on

on the special magic of Kristen Stewart. “She is extremely smart and so articulate when she discusses her work. But she is also very physical. That is not common with American actresses.”Clouds of Sils Maria

What did the French see in Stewart that the Americans couldn’t? 60 years ago, when François Truffaut hailed the young, critics had her pegged as a hopeless ingenue. By her own admission, the teenage actress had been “burned at the stake” for her performance in Otto Preminger’s, she fared almost as badly.

Truffaut’s friend, Jean-Luc Godard, was also taken with the young star, making Seberg an icon of new-wave cool when he cast her inAdapted from teen literary sensation Francoise Ozon’s novel of the same name,was part of an emerging teenage canon of films and literature that spoke to the emerging generation gap, echoing the cultural heresies of rock’n’roll and the beats.

Seberg was criticised for her stilted line readings in the film, and while it’s true they can jibe awkwardly with the naturalism of her movement, there’s a certain kitschy charm to her flat narration that’s undeniable, and brings to mind the bored-kittenish delivery of Lana Del Rey or Peggy Lee in her droll 1969 ode to nihilismAll told, it’s a performance that lands in the sweet spot between youthful vulnerability and bratty ennui that Sofia Coppola would mine so effectively some 40 years later.

 

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PS Bonjour Tristesse is adapted from the novel by Françoise Sagan (not film director Francois Ozon)

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