A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, but when his old flame resurfaces, she resolves to keep her frivolous lifestyle at all costs.
Cinematography
Riviera so gorgeous you'll forgive everyone's awfulness.
Acting
Seberg's Cecile: petulance as high art.
Costume
1950s beachwear that still slaps.
Director
Otto Preminger
Deborah Kerr
Anne Larson
David Niven
Raymond
Jean Seberg
Cecile
Mylène Demongeot
Elsa
Geoffrey Horne
Philippe
Juliette Gréco
Juliette Greco
Walter Chiari
Pablo
Martita Hunt
Philippe's Mother
Roland Culver
Mr. Lombard
Jean Kent
Mrs. Helen Lombard
David Oxley
Jacques
Elga Andersen
Denise
Tutte Lemkow
Pierre Schube (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Seberg became the face of French New Wave cinema after this; Godard saw this performance and cast her in Breathless.
Preminger fought censors to keep Cecile's casual amorality unmoralized — the Hays Code wanted her punished, he refused.
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