Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Certain Smile (20th Century-Fox), like the film version of Françoise Sagan's earlier novel, Bonjour Tristesse, puts aside bored yawning, Sagan style, for well-bred panting, Hollywood style. In the book, precociously world-weary Dominique ho-hums her way through a pair of parallel love affairs, finding no lasting happiness or pleasure in either of them-only a wan, temporary escape from ennui. But Hollywood's Dominique (French Actress Christine Carere) is as pert and wholesome as a cheerleader in love with the football captain. So what if she spends a week on the Riviera...
...paste of sentiment. By page two, the narration switches to Gide's School of Sensitive Young Man Smelling Pressed Flower and Remembering Bath Tub Ring. There are three pages of Camus. And the rest of "The Bystander" slinks along in the ironic tradition of Colette and Francoise Sagan...
Never Twice. The goddesses of St. Trop are Brigitte Bardot and Franchise Sagan, both of whom were holding court there last week. The men wear shorts and rope sandals; the women, with or without Bardot's dimensions, wear floppy white hats, brightly colored loose shirts, and pastel trousers so tight that they look as though they had been stuck on. Their feet are bare and bronzed. The czarina of fashion is a waterfront couturiere named Madame Vachon who employs a whole army of peasant girls to sew and cut and iron the simple summer uniforms of the chic. Like...
...accepted among the happy few, one should be more than well off, though in July and August a waterfront apartment may rent for as much as $1.000 a month, and money, therefore, has its uses. Most of the summer invaders seem to have come straight out of Sagan, who wrote one of her novels there (Hollywood's Bonjour Tristesse was filmed in the town), or out of Brigitte's film And God Created Women, which was also filmed there. For the energetic-those who struggle out of bed before 5 p.m.-there are the long, white beaches...
...said the New York Times's John Martin, "seems to be that in France sexe is a four-letter word." It seemed as good an explanation as the one offered by Date's creators at its premiere. Explained Composer Magne, 28: "It recalls my youth." Said Novelist Sagan, 22: "It recalls my youth...