Bonjour Tristesse (upcoming film)

Bonjour Tristesse is an upcoming film set to star Chloë Sevigny, Lily McInerny and Claes Bang. It is an adaptation of the 1954 novel of the same name by Françoise Sagan. It is adapted and directed by Durga Chew-Bose in her feature length directorial debut.

Synopsis
Cécile (McInerny), and her widowed father Raymond (Bang) are spending the summer in the south of France with his latest flame, Elsa (Harzoune). However, the equilibrium is disrupted with the arrival of Anne (Sevigny), who is an old friend of Cécile’s mother and father.

Cast

 * Chloë Sevigny as Anne
 * Claes Bang as Raymond
 * Lily McInerny as Cécile
 * Nailia Harzoune as Elsa

Production
Film Constellation are selling distribution rights to the contemporary adaptation written and directed by Durga Chew-Bose. Producers of the project include Babe Nation Films’ Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott for whom it took three years to secure rights to the novel, and for whom it had been a seven year project prior to the commencement of shooting. Also producing are Elevation Pictures’ Noah Segal and Christina Piovesan, Wolfgang Mueller and Benito Mueller of Barry Films and Cinenovo’s Julie Viez. Executive producers are Fabien Westerhoff for Constellation Productions, Suzanne Court, and Françoise Sagan’s son Denis Westhoff. Principal photography got underway in Cassis in the South of France in May 2023.