FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG American Cinema

The strange and sensational life of actress Jean Seberg-discovered at 17 by Otto Preminger to
star in Saint Joan, immortalized by Godard in Breathless, smeared by the FBI for her support of
the Black Panthers, a suicide at age 40-is the subject of this playfully brilliant “fictional autobiography.”
Using Mary Beth Hurt to play Seberg as she looks back at her life, writer-director Mark
Rappaport (Rock Hudson’s Home Movies) has constructed a fascinating film essay that darts
freely from social history to film criticism to juicy gossip, locating Seberg alongside Vanessa
Redgrave and Jane Fonda in a trinity of actress/activists who were exploited as sex objects by
their director/husbands. A one of a kind movie about the 60s most enigmatic star.-David
Ansen, Newsweek. From the Journals of Jean Seberg has been selected as David
Ansen’s Critic’s Choice.