The sad news was announced Sept. 8, 1979. Ten days after actress Jean Seberg had been reported missing, her decomposing body was found wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of her white Renault in ...

Jean Seberg’s life comes with its own built-in metaphor: She began her screen career being literally set on fire by director Otto Preminger on the set of “Saint Joan” and ended her life ...

This Seberg-martyr figure takes no responsibility for her imprudence, projects her victim self-image onto blacks, and blames others. The filmmakers don’t understand this reckless liberal type.

American actress Jean Seberg was best known for her role in “Breathless,” a classic of French new wave cinema. But she became the target of FBI scrutiny due to her support of the Black Panther ...

To three generations of fans, Jean Seberg is a haircut: the side-swept pixie she wore in “Breathless,” the French cinema classic from 1960 that made her an international star.

Jean Seberg was an American actress best known for her role in a French film, the 1960 Jean-Luc Godard New Wave drama “Breathless.” But by the late 1960s, this film suggests, ...

The sad, enraging tale of movie star Jean Seberg, who was driven to despair and ultimately suicide by an FBI harassment campaign during the late 1960s. Skip to main content. Sections.

Kristen Stewart is a picture of gorgeous disintegration in this speculative look at the F.B.I.’s persecution of the actress Jean Seberg. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Every film aesthete probably first started out as a movie fan. But writer-director Mark Rappaport is probably unique in the way he’s able to meld those two roles, first in “Rock Hudson’s ...

Kristen Stewart plays nouvelle vague icon Jean Seberg in this account of the FBI surveillance that truncated her Hollywood career, with Jack O'Connell as the investigator needled by conscience.