Jean Seberg (1938-79) began her career playing a martyr and ended it being one. She was barely out of high school when she was plucked from Marshalltown, Iowa, and cast as the lead in Otto Preminger’s ...

Pop culture creates goddesses only to offer them up for sacrifice, and over the course of her career, Kristen Stewart has no doubt gotten close enough to that pyre to smell the brimstone. So she’s a ...

Jean Seberg spent the 1960s as an internationally recognized actress, an icon of French cinema's New Wave and one of the chicest women in Hollywood, or New York, or Paris. The 1970s were far less kind ...

Rouen, France — Verdi and Tchaikovsky composed operas about her. Mark Twain wrote her biography. Sarah Bernhardt adopted her persona on stage. Ingrid Bergman and Jean Seberg played her in movies.

We had revivals of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, featuring one of Seberg’s key early performances, and Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), both important touchstones in Rappaport’s ...

Kristin Stewart works hard in the title role, but is undercut by the film’s over-focus on FBI agents gathering dirt. Beginning a movie with the heroine getting burned at the stake is one way to ...

The Netflix film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic “Breathless” is chock-full of names with key ...

The intriguing story behind “Seberg” and the reliable talent of its lead actress, Kristen Stewart, promise greatness. But this biopic manages to squander both, reducing the film to a bland period ...

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The intriguing story behind “Seberg” and the always-interesting Kristen Stewart promised greatness. But this biopic squanders both; it’s a bland period piece with an irritating lack of focus. Jean ...

Muse and martyr, Jean Seberg and her tragic career are reflected and refracted in avant-garde films. By J. Hoberman Jean Seberg (1938-79) began her career playing a martyr and ended it being one. She ...