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...kind of impassioned prattle that made Franchise Sagan a sensation at 18 and a bestselling bore at 22 continues to infect young girl writers. Two current examples of vernal volubility, each the work of a 14-year...
Bonjour Tristesse (Preminger; Columbia). The thoughts of youth, in the case of 18-year-old French Novelist Franchise Sagan, were brief, decadent and commercial. Her first novel (TIME, Feb. 14, 1955) sold more than 600,000 copies in France and more than 1,625,000 in the U.S. At first the critics were amazed at the book's "maturity," but later many decided that the maturity was mostly just adultery. In this picture the adultery has been tastefully toned down. What is left is an old-fashioned story about incest...
...repulsive tale, but somehow repulsively alluring, though not in the same way the book was. Sagan's sensuous sentences suggested the presence of horror by wreathing softly about it; the camera pries into its morbid subject like a coroner. And the meanings that the novelist saw through her looking glass, darkly, Director Otto Preminger sees face to face in staring Mediterranean sunlight. He loses the French style but gains some common substance...
Reminiscing in Paris about her earlier years, aging (22) Novelist Franchise (Those Without Shadows) Sagan was rueful about the estimated $500,000 she made off her first three bedtime stories. "The tax people caught up with me and took 65% of my earnings," said she with a certain sadness. "If I'd had more sense I'd have owned whole estates by now. But I bought cars and boats which ended up scuttled on roads or at the bottom...
Author Kerr goes on to spoof interior decorating, domestic pets, diets and operations. It's a pity that she does less of what she does best, literary parodies. She confines herself to a hilarious take-off on the morose moppet, Franchise Sagan (TIME, Dec. 10, 1956) and an equally funny spoof of Mickey Spillane called "Don Brown's Body." Sample: "I was going into Longchamps when this tomato waltzes by. She was a tomato surprise. A round white face with yellow hair poured over it like chicken gravy on mashed potatoes. Her raccoon coat was tight...