Seberg * * * *
This has not been warmly received, but actually I liked it. It's from the same director that gave us Una a couple of years ago.
The story focuses on one section of Actress Jean Sebergs life - the lead up to her decision to never again work in America (her home country).
The story commences somewhat symbolically with Seberg burning at the stake in her first film, Joan of Arc. A huge budget film from the 1950's which was a ratings disaster.
We then leap forward to a time when she was working in both America and France. (After Godard's Breathless, the French had certainly switched on to her unique talent).
It was the late sixties, a time when the African American voice was growing louder. Jean Seberg developed a strong sentiment for the social injustice that African Americans were suffering under, and was somewhat naively excited by their militant representation - which was enough to make the FBI somewhat excited by her!
In this story the FBI are primarily represented by one agent with a growing conscience and a sense of disgust at what he and his organisation were doing to Jean Seberg as they bugged her home and shamelessly invaded her privacy. On reflection one cannot help but consider it was more a case of the FBI betraying Jean Seberg, an American citizen, than Seberg betraying her country.
Jean Seberg is played very convincingly by Kirsten Stewart. She is well cast too as Stewart herself is an American actress who also works in French Cinema.
The story focuses on one section of Actress Jean Sebergs life - the lead up to her decision to never again work in America (her home country).
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| Can I be in your gang? I'll blend right in. |
We then leap forward to a time when she was working in both America and France. (After Godard's Breathless, the French had certainly switched on to her unique talent).
It was the late sixties, a time when the African American voice was growing louder. Jean Seberg developed a strong sentiment for the social injustice that African Americans were suffering under, and was somewhat naively excited by their militant representation - which was enough to make the FBI somewhat excited by her!
In this story the FBI are primarily represented by one agent with a growing conscience and a sense of disgust at what he and his organisation were doing to Jean Seberg as they bugged her home and shamelessly invaded her privacy. On reflection one cannot help but consider it was more a case of the FBI betraying Jean Seberg, an American citizen, than Seberg betraying her country.
Jean Seberg is played very convincingly by Kirsten Stewart. She is well cast too as Stewart herself is an American actress who also works in French Cinema.
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