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Sagan is a french film of genre Drama directed by Diane Kurys released in USA on 11 june 2008 with Sylvie Testud
Sagan (2008)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 11 june 2008
Length 1h57
Directed by Diane Kurys
OriginFrance
Themes Films about writers
Rating62%
Sagan is a 2008 French biographical film, directed by Diane Kurys, starring Sylvie Testud as French author Françoise Sagan and Pierre Palmade as a dancer and a society man, Jacques Chazot, who was very well known in France. The film starts in the mid-1950s as Sagan (then still known under her real name Quoirez) closes a publishing deal for her controversial debut novel Bonjour Tristesse.
The film then follows Sagan's road to fame, her drug abuse, alcoholism, and gambling, her hedonistic lifestyle spending too much and becoming poor, as well as several complex love affairs with both men and women.
Sagan was released in France on June 11, 2008.
Synopsis
In 1958, Françoise Sagan is 23 years old. Her first couple of novels have made her rich and famous. She lives an easy life, filled with sex and debauchery, surrounded by her group of friends. On the 8th of August that year, at the Casino in Deauville, she gambles her last chips on the number 8 and wins 8 million francs, with which, a couple of hours later, she buys the house which she rented, in nearby Honfleur. This makes her the owner of that property, and she vows that she will never leave the place. Why is she, 40 years later, living there all alone, as a recluse? What events made a young promising novelist end up all alone, without the ones she loved, and used, all those years?Actors
Sylvie Testud
(Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan)
Pierre Palmade
(Jacques Chazot)
Françoise Sagan
Lionel Abelanski
(Bernard Frank)
Jeanne Balibar
(Peggy Roche)
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