KRISTEN AS SEBERG

Jean Seberg was an American-born actress whose performance in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless cemented her status as a French New Wave cinema icon. It’s not just her celebratory performances that make her so interesting. Seberg became one of the most high-profile targets of COINTELPRO because of her support of Black Panther Hakim Jamal. (COINTELPRO was a covert FBI operation that sometimes veered into illegal territory as it tracked different political groups across the US). Seberg’s second husband, Romain Gary, openly blamed government surveillance as a contributing factor in her untimely death at age 40.

Now Seberg is a movie about the ill-fated starlet and we, here at PROVOKR, are very excited. Kristen Stewart, who’s everywhere this year, stars as the actress driven mad by the FBI. The trailer’s finally out for the movie we covered in End of Year Indies and it reveals just how amazing it looks. Stewart has come into her own, both personally and professionally, and she should be sizzling in this one!

After seeing the trailer, you may think the plot couldn’t possibly be true, but the 60s and 70s were a turbulent period of American history. Our nation was a cultural and political ticking time bomb. The government participated in a wide range of activities that included the Vietnam War and counterintelligence missions against the Black Panther party. The actress was caught up in the middle. Watch the Seberg trailer, and get excited for this can’t miss movie that comes out next month.

See Seberg in theaters starting December 13, 2019.