“Bonjour Tristesse” is the kind of atmospheric, visually lush summer vacation film that makes you want to melt into the frame. Durga Chew-Bose, a journalist and writer known for the 2017 book “Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays,” makes her directorial debut with the film. It’s a modernized adaptation of French writer Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel, which was previously brought to the screen by Otto Preminger in 1958.
For two of the cast members — Lily McInerny and Chloë Sevigny — the experience of filming in the rich landscape of Cassis, France wasn’t too dissimilar from the characters’ day-to-day lifestyle. “Chloë and I would spend the weekends on
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