6.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Bonjour Tristesse (2025)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.3
Overview
At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile is relaxing by the French seaside with her father and falling in love with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother's enigmatic friend turns her world upside down.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Overview
At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile is relaxing by the French seaside with her father and falling in love with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother's enigmatic friend turns her world upside down.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's dominant themes of sexual freedom, queer desire, and personal agency align with a politically liberal cultural sensibility, even though it avoids explicit political commentary and focuses on personal and emotional conflicts.
The movie features an Asian-Canadian woman director and includes actors of diverse backgrounds, notably casting a non-white actress in a role traditionally assumed white. The narrative focuses on complex female relationships and challenges traditional male-centric storytelling, aligning with feminist perspectives.
Secondary
The film portrays LGBTQ+ themes through a sophisticated, understated depiction of queer desire and complex female relationships. It emphasizes the naturalness and fluidity of queer feelings and identity within a coming-of-age framework, presenting these experiences as intrinsic and formative without explicit labeling or negative framing.
Bonjour Tristesse does not feature any transsexual characters or themes. The film centers on cisgender characters and their emotional complexities, focusing on a young woman's coming-of-age, family dynamics, and relationships without any reference to transsexual identities or the transsexual community.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 2025 film "Bonjour Tristesse" portrays all main characters with the same on-screen gender as established in the original 1954 novel. No character's gender deviates from their source material counterpart.
The novel does not specify the race of Elsa, the character portrayed by a French-Moroccan actress. For other main characters, casting aligns with European descent, consistent with the source material's implied racial background. No character established as one race in the source is portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.7
6.2
Critic Ratings
6.8
6.4
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