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But others have also picked up on the ethereal, captivating quality of her adaptation of the 1954 French novel of the same name, written by �������ç�Ǿ����� Sagan.

The movie is, after all, the second cinematic retelling of �������ç�Ǿ����� Sagan’s classic 1954 coming-of-age novel, about a teenage girl named Cécile, whose idyllic summer in the south of France is interrupted by her father’s rigid new lover, Anne.

Sagan’s novel was adapted into a film four years later, where French New Wave icon Jean Seberg put a cherubic face to Cécile’s scheming.

She’s deeply interested in why Sagan’s story has maintained its relevance, even if parts of it feel outmoded.

The combination of adolescence’s slippery hedonism and the French Riviera’s languid air spurred the explosive popularity of �������ç�Ǿ����� Sagan’s 1954 novel “Bonjour Tristesse,” written when the author was herself a teenager.