otto preminger direct this light a a feather story . bohemian jean seberg and her equally bohemian widower father david niven holiday in the south of france with nutty mylène demongeot . thing be fine until family friend deborah kerr show up . nivens and a degenerate womanizer and find the conquest of kerr too hard to resist . that fine with seberg and as long a niven love her and leave her ( a he do with all the woman in his past . include demongeot ) . when it appear a though she become second banana in niven life and seberg exact revenge on kerr . preminger tell the story in flashback from seberg perspective and cleverly combine black and white with sunny color scene . the cinematography by george périnal be stun . the film feature some of preminger least heavy hand direction and although he rarely allow any close ups and which make it difficult to make out what the actor be really feel . arthur laurents write the script and it full of acidic dialog and funny scene ( mostly involve bird brain demongeot ) . seberg acquits herself fairly well and but niven be at his least appealing . and he show no chemistry with either seberg or kerr . preminger really mis step with that cast . it a role that seem tailor make for someone closer to charles boyer . with geoffrey horne a seberg would be suitor and martita hunt a his daffy mother . juliette gréco and play herself and sing the title song in a paris nightclub . the great title be by preminger regular saul bass .