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Rookie Helmer Durga Chew-Bose on TIFF Debut ’Bonjour Tristesse’ and the Special Bond of the Female Characters and Producers
Rookie Helmer Durga Chew-Bose on TIFF debut ’Bonjour Tristesse’ and the special sond of the female characters and producers.
Intoxicating ocean views and cascading sunshine at a seaside villa welcome audiences into Durga Chew-Bose ‘s feature directorial debut, “ Bonjour Tristesse.” The beauty creates a too-good-to-be-true environment — the perfect setting for summer romance, youthful exploration and, also, somehow, something dark and unnerving. Adapted from the controversial 1954 novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan, who was just 18 when she penned it, the film follows a young Cécile (Lily McInerny) and her widowed father Raymond (Claes Bang) spending the summer in the south of France along with his latest partner, Elsa (Nailia Harzoune). Chew-Bose’s rendition is only mildly transformed for modern audiences, an intentional decision as well as Babe Nation Films’ Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott, executive producers on the project.
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