Watch Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless—Ok, watch it again—and it is impossible not to be struck by the mysterious, stunning, enigmatic Jean Seberg. Here was an actor clearly destined for icon status, a Midwesterner with a European sensibility and piercing onscreen intelligence. Offscreen, Seberg was a woman under siege by the American government, and this tumultuous period of her life—the late 1960s and early 1970s—is covered in Benedict Andrews’s fascinating, ultimately disappointing and oddly shaped Seberg. Starring the ever-splendid Kristen Stewart, a gifted actor who captures Seberg’s look and grace, the film is a watchable failure.
Plaguing it is a startling lack of context. The film opens with a rather startling yet metaphorically obvious re-creation of the burning of Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan. The audience is quickly plunged directly into Seberg’s post-Breathless, post-Saint Joan life without any greater sense...
Plaguing it is a startling lack of context. The film opens with a rather startling yet metaphorically obvious re-creation of the burning of Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan. The audience is quickly plunged directly into Seberg’s post-Breathless, post-Saint Joan life without any greater sense...
- 9/8/2019
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
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