Jean Seberg - Against All Enemies

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Movie
German title Jean Seberg - Against All Enemies
Original title Seberg
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 102 minutes
Rod
Director Benedict Andrews
script Joe Shrapnel ,
Anna Waterhouse
production Marina Acton ,
Fred Berger,
Kate Garwood ,
Stephen Hopkins ,
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones ,
Bradley Mushroom ,
Alan Ritchson
music Jed Kurzel
camera Rachel Morrison
cut Pamela Martin
occupation

Jean Seberg - Against all Enemies (original title Seberg ) is a thriller by Benedict Andrews , which celebrated its world premiere on August 30, 2019 in the competition (out of competition) of the Venice Film Festival . The focus of the biopic is the American actress Jean Seberg , played by Kristen Stewart , mainly through its role as a young American in Paris Nouvelle Vague film Breathless gained from 1960 celebrity. She came under the FBI's focus due to her romantic relationship with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal and was targeted by the FBI's illegal surveillance program COINTELPRO in the late 1960s . Jamal is played by Anthony Mackie in the film . After the start date was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film is now due to hit German cinemas on September 17, 2020.

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Actress Jean Seberg is a star and darling of the French Nouvelle Vague in the late 1960s . However, Seberg's relationship with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal makes her a target of the FBI. It is targeted by its illegal surveillance program COINTELPRO, through which the FBI is trying to destroy and discredit the Black Power movement. Ambitious young FBI agent Jack Solomon is hired to monitor Seberg.

Biographical

Jean Seberg was an American actress who became a cult figure of the Nouvelle Vague with her role in Jean-Luc Godard's Out of Breath . She commuted between Hollywood and Europe and played leading roles in films of various genres. Even if only a few productions were commercially successful, some became film classics.

The COINTELPRO instruction to “neutralize” Jean Seberg through defamation

Seberg's political-romantic relationship with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal later made her a target of the FBI. Her involvement with the Black Panther Party put her in the sights of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover , who tried to disrupt the Black Power movement and discredit Seberg. An ambitious young FBI agent, Jack Solomon, has been hired to monitor her under the COINTELPRO surveillance program. When she was expecting her second child in 1970, a smear campaign spread rumors that Seberg had a liaison with a Black Panther activist and that he was pregnant.

In the last years of her life, excessive drug and alcohol consumption alternated with numerous hospital stays. Due to its increasing instability, it no longer seemed up to the mechanisms of the film business and the sensational press. Her fourth marriage, on May 31, 1979, to the Algerian Ahmed Hasni, who apparently wanted to make a profit from the relationship with her, remained legally ineffective because Seberg had not yet divorced her last husband, Dennis Berry. The actress was last seen alive in Paris in August 1979. Ten days later, police found her body in her car, next to her sleeping pills and a suicide note, making suicide the most likely cause of death . August 30, 1979 is given as the date of death. The exact circumstances of her death remained unclear.

production

Staff and cast

Kristen Stewart took on the role of Jean Seberg in the film , here at the screening of the film at the Toronto International Film Festival

Directed by Benedict Andrews . The script was written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse . The score is composed by Jed Kurzel .

Kristen Stewart took on the role of Jean Seberg . Jack O'Connell plays FBI agent Jack Solomon and Anthony Mackie plays activist Hakim Jamal . Vince Vaughn and Stephen Root can also be seen in other roles .

Filming and publishing

Filming began in Los Angeles in June 2018 and ended in August 2018. The camerawoman was Rachel Morrison , who in 2018 became the first woman in the history of the Oscars to receive a nomination in this category for her work on Mudbound by Dee Rees would have. The working title was Against All Enemies (English for "Against All Enemies").

In February 2019, Amazon Studios acquired the rights to the film during the Berlinale. On August 30, 2019, the 40th anniversary of Seberg's death, the film was shown out of competition in the main competition at the Venice Film Festival and celebrated its world premiere here. In September 2019, a screening took place at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Special Presentations. Also in September 2019 it was shown at the Festival of American Films in Deauville , and in early October 2019 at the London Film Festival . A first trailer was published in November 2019. The film was originally scheduled to be released in German cinemas on March 26, 2020, but a release in Germany has been postponed to September 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Reviews

Thomas Schultze describes Seberg in Blickpunkt: Film as "the portrait of a woman whose fragile psyche is systematically destroyed". Kristen Stewart, who is playing a real character for the second time after Joan Jett in The Runaways , is convincing precisely because she succeeds in internalizing the character, but in such a fascinating way that she can always remain Kristen Stewart: "Your game is what you remember in Seberg , not its decor , which seems a bit too exposed: it makes Seberg a film from the here and now." Jenny Jecke is disappointed on Moviepilot : "In the biopic with thriller elements, Andrews and his team competently but without deeper insight switch between Jean Seberg's growing despair and the remorse of the young FBI man. This is where camerawoman Rachel Morrison ( Black Panther ) emerged as Kristen Stewart's main creative partner. "

Web links

Commons : Seberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Kristen Stewart: Leading role in "Against All Enemies". In: sky.de, March 17, 2018.
  3. ^ Nancy Tartaglione: Kristen Stewart To Play Icon Jean Seberg In Political Thriller 'Against All Enemies'; Jack O'Connell, Anthony Mackie Also Star. In: deadline.com, March 14, 2018.
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  5. ↑ Dave McNary: Amazon Studios Buys Kristen Stewart's 'Against All Enemies'. In: Variety, February 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Seberg. In: labiennale.org. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  7. ^ Rhonda Richford: Deauville American Film Festival to Screen Nate Parker's 'American Skin'. In: The Hollywood Reporter, August 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ 63rd BFI London Film Festival program announced. In: bfi.org.uk, August 29, 2019.
  9. ↑ Alex Billington: Kristen Stewart is Jean Seberg in First Official Trailer for 'Seberg' Film. In: firstshowing.net, November 13, 2019.
  10. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Accessed August 31, 2019.
  11. ^ Film starts: Jean Seberg - Against All Enemies. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Thomas Schultze: Venice Day 3: The Polanski Thing. In: Blickpunkt: Film. August 31, 2019, accessed August 31, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Jenny Jecke: Against All Enemies: Kristen Stewart enters the most important phase of her career. In: Moviepilot.de. August 31, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .