Bonjour tristesse

The villa is magnificent, the summer scorching, the Mediterranean close at hand. Cécile is seventeen years old. All she knows of love is kisses, dates, moments of weariness. Not for long. Her father, a widower, is a cheerful devotee of passing, unimportant affairs. They have fun, they need no one, they are happy. The visit of a warm-hearted, intelligent and calm woman comes to disturb this delightful disorder. How can the threat be removed? In the sun-baked pine forest, a cruel game is being prepared.

It was the summer of 1954. For the first time, one heard the dry, quick voice of a “charming little monster” who was about to cause a scandal. The second half of the twentieth century was beginning. It would be in the image of this adolescent girl, torn between remorse and the cult of pleasure.