a ‘charming little monster’ disrupts bourgeois morality on the French Riviera
- Written by Frances Egan, Lecturer in Global Studies, Monash University
The 2024 film version of Bonjour Tristesse.Toronto International Film FestivalIn 1954, Bonjour Tristesse scandalised readers with its depiction of a 17-year-old girl who partied, had sex and played havoc with other people’s lives.
The author, French writer Françoise Sagan, was only 18 herself. She shot to fame when the novel won the...





