‘Seberg’ Trailer: Kristen Stewart Is The French New Wave Star
By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 13, 2019 7:00 pm EST
Seberg Trailer
Seberg played at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and the reaction was…not great (it’s currently sitting at 42% on Rotten Tomatoes). I was unable to fit the film into my schedule there, and after hearing such ho-hum reactions I didn’t feel the need to make it a priority. That said, I will always eventually make time to see a new Kristen Stewart movie, because I think she’s one of the most interesting actresses working right now.
In Seberg, Stewart plays “the French New Wave darling and Breathless star, Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), who in the late 1960s was targeted by the FBI because of her support of the civil rights movement and romantic involvement with Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie), among others. In Benedict Andrews’ noir-ish thriller, Seberg’s life and career are destroyed by Hoover’s overreaching surveillance and harassment in an effort to suppress and discredit Seberg’s activism.”
