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From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Screening: Monday 10 July, 6:30pm
USA
1995
Director: Mark Rappaport
Jean Seberg: Mary Beth Hurt
97 mins
16mm
colour and B & W
A suicide at 40, Seberg was hounded to death in 1979 by the FBI because of her work with the Black Panthers. When she becam pregnant, J. Edgar Hoover planted a fallacious story in Newsweek that the father was black. The baby died and many nervous breakdowns followed. Part of what made Seberg’s life and career so heartbreaking was that her early fame as a teenager seemed to carry so much promise. Her well-publicised debut as Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan was followed by her fresh-faced roles in Bonjour Tristesse and Godard’s Breathless (screening 1 May), which catapulted her to icon status, her close-cropped hair becoming a central fashion reference. – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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