John Caton

Along with a later film featuring Michael Caine as Alfie, Bonjour Tristesse is an examination of the destructive sociopathic personality. The callous, unfeeling sociopaths in this film by Otto Preminger are brilliantly portrayed by Jean Seberg and David Niven: engaging manipulative narcissists incapable of any true feeling for others. As with all sociopaths, skilled in the art of psychological murder.

Made in 1942, a film for 2024 wherein today’s Republican Party—on the bootstraps of monopoly corporations and billionaire oligarchs—marches the country toward fascism.

This one of the most annoying slow moving science fiction movies I’ve seen: a full hour watching a deadbeat, smart Alec, wisecracking, womanizing reporter barking at people while wandering around London as the rest of the journalists actually do some work behind the scenes.