{"id":170361,"date":"2025-04-11T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=170361"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T18:05:11","slug":"a-very-precious-bonjour-tristesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/11\/a-very-precious-bonjour-tristesse\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Precious <em>Bonjour Tristesse<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_170363\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170363\" class=\"size-large wp-image-170363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2025-04-09-at-103404-1024x615.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2025-04-09-at-103404-1024x615.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2025-04-09-at-103404-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2025-04-09-at-103404-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2025-04-09-at-103404-1536x923.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/screenshot-2025-04-09-at-103404-2048x1230.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-170363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fran\u00e7oise Sagan, who crashed and flipped her fabulous Aston Martin DB2\/4 at high speed en route to Saint-Tropez, did not die despite getting her skull crushed beneath her British-made hatchback in Fiesta Red. She did not drown in a yachting accident on the Riviera some four years earlier, nor did she immediately go bankrupt after becoming so consumed by roulette that she personally asked the French Ministry of the Interior to ban her from domestic casinos. Her mutant capacity for indulgence, combined with her other cosmopolitan hobbies (whiskey, morphine, tax evasion), made her so much the poster girl for sixties Gallic glamour that a French newspaper once gave her the topline \u201c<em>un charmant petit monstre<\/em>\u201d\u2014though a death drive that well oiled could have used something more like what Susan Sontag said about the self-destructive: \u201cDying is overwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sagan\u2019s writing seems to mime the choreography of her darker impulses and lives on just as deathlessly as its author did. Her first novel, <em>Bonjour Tristesse<\/em>, published in 1954, is a disturbing little speed read about the motherless seventeen-year-old C\u00e9cile, who holidays happily with her father, Raymond, in the South of France. Quickly, the story becomes a nasty chamber play\u2014C\u00e9cile and her daddy have this total delicious connection until a stranger threatens to ruin her paradise\u2014and directors from now both sides of the millennium have tried to commit the catastrophe to film. The first adaptation of the book, by Otto Preminger in 1958, stars peppy Jean Seberg as our tricksy prima donna; this May, the director and screenwriter Durga Chew-Bose reanimates her by way of the hypertelerotic Lily McInerny, whose gift for the languid, googly gaze might suggest something about the way this new film is concerned not with the way things move but with how things look.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tristesse<\/em> is, to both Sagan\u2019s and Chew-Bose\u2019s credit, an eyeful. This is one of those French stories that lives for the sensuous and elemental\u2014filled with the usual subatomic lustful vibrations of summer, the secret viciousness of young women, beautiful bikinis, buttered toasts. The camera watches dad and daughter pad around barefoot in their seaside rental alongside his sexy mistress Elsa\u2014the coconut-scented boh\u00e8me\u2014until woman no. 3 in Chanel No. 5 arrives with her chilly-chic hauteur. This is Anne, friend of dead mother, menace to harmony, and here played by Chlo\u00eb Sevigny. With her best <small>WASP<\/small>-y restraint, the actress reminds us that she is not from the Lower East Side but from Darien, Connecticut, blinking impassively at the Mediterranean from kitten heels on the veranda. \u201cI knew that once she was there it would be impossible for any of us to relax completely,\u201d C\u00e9cile says in the novel. In the film, the scenes that follow should grow tenser, make us sore\u2014instead, the triangular dynamic of the three women grades softly in C\u00e9cile\u2019s nisus toward vengeance. The days disappear by a sort of melting process.<\/p>\n<p>Understandable that Chew-Bose, a first-time director but a longtime writer, picked this fable to remake. She may be better known as the author of tremendously sensitive essays during the post-<em>Rookie<\/em> era of online memoirists, when personal narratives privileged preciousness over persuasion. In Chew-Bose\u2019s parlance\u2014monstrously decadent with her verbs and wildly, even gratuitously, figurative\u2014names \u201cpleat her memory\u201d; her parents\u2019 narratives \u201coil her rationale.\u201d <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grafting this impulse to the screen means every bauble in the movie gets a caress\u2014her camera lavishes crocheted bedspreads, a silver hairpin, one dazzling tomato-and-cheese sandwich. <\/span>At one point in the movie, a sailboat named simply <em>Images<\/em> casts off into the water. \u201cIs there anything,\u201d Chew-Bose once asked, \u201cbetter, more truthful and sublime than what cannot be communicated?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her airy puzzling\u2014tender, miasmic, mannered, and broody\u2014sits at odds with <em>Tristesse<\/em>\u2019s natural vim. Hers is a movie Shiatsued of its evils<em>.<\/em> Where Preminger prickles, Chew-Bose cocoons. And all that Sagan lived for\u2014her needs for speed, eros, entropy, the ultimate\u2014dissolves into a glamorous torpor. Every stylish writer is at risk of smothering her story, but when it happens, it can\u2019t help but feel like (here\u2019s Sontag again) \u201ca certain coquetry of the void.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Mina Tavakoli is a writer from Virginia. 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