Françoise Sagan

Writing

Françoise Sagan

Born 1935-06-21 · Cajarc, Lot, France

Françoise Sagan, born Françoise Quoirez, was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. She is best-known novel for her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" (1954), written when she was a teenager.

Acting credits

Testament of Orpheus poster
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An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.

Testament of Orpheus

1960

Cherchez l'idole poster
6.4

After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...

Cherchez l'idole

1964

Bonjour Tristesse, Hello Scandal: The Raunchy Book That Shocked France poster
7.3

Summer 1953. Françoise Sagan, a young French girl, begins writing Bonjour Tristesse. A few months later she becomes a published author, while France is scandalized by her frank description of female youthful sexuality.

Bonjour Tristesse, Hello Scandal: The Raunchy Book That Shocked France

2022

A Night at the Opera poster
6.1

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

A Night at the Opera

2020

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes poster
6.0

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

2015

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Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their views on literature and discuss what drives them to write.

Femmes écrivains

1967

Vadim Mister Cool poster
5.9

As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and prolific father... Roger Vladimir Plémiannikov, a.k.a. Roger Vadim, tried everything until his death in 2000. Portrait of a man at the cutting edge of fashion and trends.

Vadim Mister Cool

2016

Françoise Sagan : L'élégance de vivre poster
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Françoise Sagan : L'élégance de vivre

2017

Mitterrand, président culturel poster
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On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.

Mitterrand, président culturel

2021

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