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- Château en Suède
- SF Bay Guardian June 3, 2009 (Robert Avila)
- Françoise Sagan died in 2004 at age 69, but even then she was
never far from the sharp-witted, sybaritic bourgeois rebel whose first
novel, the precocious Bonjour Tristesse, rocketed its 18-year-old author
to international fame in 1954.
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- She followed that literary debutante ball with a solid half-century
of high living, fast cars, bisexual affairs, celebrated drug arrests, and
more writing — including novels, film scripts, memoirs, and plays.
One of these last was Ch/âteau en Suède (Castle in Sweden),
later a 1963 movie by Roger Vadim starring Monica Vitti. It concerns the
lascivious pastimes and intergenerational dreams of a family shut away
in a snowy winter retreat with an uninvited guest. Platypus Théâtre,
a young Francophone company formed in 2005, presents a weekend run of Château
performed, bien sûr, en français.(Avila)
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