| Bonjour Tristesse + MoMA MoMA's Celebrating Summer movie series is going on now until 06.26.08. Included are JAWS, which I covered yesterday, and the 1958 British classic Bonjour Tristesse starring the iconic Jean Seberg. "Seventeen-year-old Cécile spends her summer in a villa on the French Riviera with her father and two other women. Her father, Raymond, is a seductive man who has had many affairs. Among his women friends is Elsa Mackenbourg: she and Cécile get on well. When Elsa comes to the villa to spend her summer with Raymond, it is clear that she is the latest of many women whom Cécile has seen enter the life of her father and exit fairly quickly: young, superficial, and fashionable." Read more here and get info on tickets here. Don't forget to checkout the trailer and this review of the book on which the film was based, written by Françoise Sagan at the ripe old age of 18. |