Bonjour Tristesse
Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: May 2, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Saffron MaeveMay 2, 2025
What Chew-Bose gets so right about these characters is their very performativity, building a lifestyle where everyone is legible to each other despite a desire to remain unknowable. Read full review
90
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanMay 1, 2025
A work of image and mood, Bonjour Tristesse captures the mythopoetic wonder of an adolescent summer, and the effect is trancelike. Read full review
85
Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesMay 5, 2025
Bonjour Tristesse is a rich experience in more ways than one, while it also burns beneath with a rising secret fire. Give it some patience, and it will give you an unforgettable experience. Read full review
83
Original-CinChris KnightMay 2, 2025
In short, there is much to enjoy in Bonjour Tristesse, but the film as a whole never quite rises to the level of its best parts. And that’s a little sad. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineAlexander MooneyApr 28, 2025
The film finds a state of grace in that torrential pull between the familiar and the new. Read full review
75
IndieWireKate ErblandSep 13, 2024
Chew-Bose’s directorial debut is a sharp offering that adds to the mystique of the original material and makes a strong case for its own existence. Read full review
75
The Film StageEthan VestbySep 13, 2024
Chew-Bose’s filmmaking can be tasteful to something of a fault; the number of whispery conversations begins tipping the film over from gentle character piece to slight self-importance, a palpable self-consciousness of hyper-sensitivity. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMay 2, 2025
Bonjour Tristesse works best as a sustained mood, as an evocation of long summer days that might not actually exist outside Eric Rohmer films and fashion magazine photo shoots. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 28, 2025
This immaculately lit and shot (by Maximilian Pittner) and gorgeously designed (by François-Renaud Labarthe, who did “Clouds of Sils Maria”) and costumed (Miyako Bellizzi) potboiler does justice to Sagan’s “ultimate beach novel” source, even if it never escapes that label. Read full review
60
Screen RantAbigail StevensJun 18, 2025
The setting and the drama of Bonjour Tristesse complement each other, but the finale is incongruous when the premise and the presentation seem to be on different terms. While the movie has a rich personality, it is moderately aimless and should have better established how it wanted to be different from the original. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 5, 2025
Preminger, an old noir hand, perhaps understood something fundamental about Sagan’s story: It is not one well served by subtlety or realism. Chew-Bose’s effort is nevertheless a noble one. She wants to make this world immersive, convincing, and compelling. She’s good enough to get part of the way there, but I don’t know if the destination was ever in sight. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMay 2, 2025
One can appreciate the effort behind this well-made Bonjour Tristesse without necessarily feeling its turmoil. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 13, 2024
While promising, Chew-Bose’s attractive but ultimately hollow debut offers audiences a vicarious vacation to the south of France, in which vivid sense memories are accompanied by words far too eloquent to have sprung from a 19-year-old’s head. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterCaryn JamesSep 13, 2024
Chew-Bose’s screenplay doesn’t explore the characters deeply enough to replace the book’s jaw-dropping quality with any psychological depth. Read full review
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