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Before the opening of her trial for reckless driving, 23-year-old French Novelist Françoise Sagan chugalugged a quick beer on the steps of the Palace of Justice in suburban Corbeil. The conscience of the go-hoyden-go set, she likes speeds around 100 m.p.h. Hurtling along near Corbeil in 1957, her Aston-Martin dived into a field and turned over, nearly killing the novelist and three friends...
...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...
...rakish Uncle Luc (Rossano Brazzi). In the book, after Luc's wife (Joan Fontaine) discovers their affair, Dominique goes right on with him. On the screen, endowed with an honestly passionate heart and soul, Dominique can only tearfully apologize and slink back to the youthful boy friend. Franchise Sagan doubtless regards the movie with a certain smile...
...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...
...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...