Synopsis
As the film opens, it's 1954 and Sagan (played by Sylvie Testud), still in her teens, has become a literary celebrity overnight with the success of her first novel Bonjour Tristesse. Sagan is enjoying the high life with her close friends Jacques (Pierre Palmade) and Bernard (Lionel Abelanski), while spending her royalties on liquor, sports cars, partying and evenings at the casino. Sagan, a bisexual, enjoyed short-lived romances with lovers of both genders but in the Sixties she made an effort to settle down, marrying American expatriate Robert Westhoff (William Miller). While the two had a child, Westhoff's frequent homosexual affairs damaged their relationship beyond repair, and her longest-lasting romantic partnership was with Peggy (Jeanne Balibar), an editor at a fashion magazine. While Sagan continued to write, her appetite for alcohol and cocaine grew dramatically, and as her addiction became stronger, her literary output shrank and after years of failing to pay her taxes, she became dependent on the generosity of friends to survive and became a stranger to her only child.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (49)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Alexandre Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : EuropaCorp
- French distribution : EuropaCorp Distribution
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Diane Kurys
- Assistant directors : Hugo Gélin, Louna Morard
- Sound recordists : Dominique Levert, Guillaume Bouchateau, Christian Fontaine
- Screenwriters : Diane Kurys, Martine Moriconi, Claire Lemaréchal
- Director of Photography : Michel Abramowicz
- Assistant Operators : Julien Bureau, Isabelle Dumas, Charlotte Vitroly
- Press Attaché (film) : Dominique Segall
- Editor : Sylvie Gadmer
- Assistant editor : Lucile Sautarel
- Continuity supervisor : Claudine Taulère
- Production Designer : Alexandra Lassen
- Music Composer : Armand Amar
- Casting : Gérard Moulevrier
- Costume designer : Nathalie du Roscoat
- Artistic Director : Maxime Rebière
- Sound Mixer : Carl Goetgheluck
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2007
- French release : 11/06/2008
- Runtime : 1 h 57 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 119.342
- Visa issue date : 02/06/2008
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
- Rating restrictions : None
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