Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger, 1958): Cine Lumiere, 6.30pm
This film also screens on May 5th and 9th. Full details here. I wrote a feature about the film and its star, Jean Seberg, for the Guardian when the movie was screened at the London Film Festival in 2012.
Chicago Reader review:
Jean-Luc Godard conceived Jean Seberg's character in Breathless
as an extension of her role in this 1958 Otto Preminger film: the
restless teenage daughter of a bored, decaying playboy (David Niven),
she tries to undermine what might be her father's last chance for
happiness, a romance with an Englishwoman (Deborah Kerr). Arguably, this
is Preminger's masterpiece: working with a soapy script by Arthur
Laurents (by way of Francoise Sagan's novel), Preminger turns the
melodrama into a meditation on motives and their ultimate unknowability.
Long takes and balanced 'Scope compositions are used to bind the
characters together; Preminger uses the wide screen not to expand the
spectacle, but to narrow and intensify the drama. With Mylene Demongeot,
Geoffrey Horne, and Juliette Greco; photographed in Technicolor (apart
from a black-and-white prologue and epilogue), mainly on the Riviera, by
Georges Perinal.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer
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