Seberg

2019 Directed by Benedict Andrews

Actress. Activist. Adversary.

An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles.

Kristen Stewart Jack O'Connell Anthony Mackie Margaret Qualley Zazie Beetz Yvan Attal Stephen Root Colm Meaney Vince Vaughn Jade Pettyjohn Grantham Coleman James Jordan Gabriel Sky Victoria Barabas Sean Bolger Ben Kliewer Brian Michael Jones Celeste Pechous Laura Campbell Misha Gonz-Cirkl Robin Thomas Kurt Collins Tobias Truvillion Noelle Danique Louie Diane Chernansky John Frederick Scott Edmund Wyson Claude Knowlton Eric Alperin

Alternative Titles

Сиберг, Against All Enemies

drama thriller

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Review by iana ★★ 12

these fucking cowards portraying the fbi agent as a nice guy!!! he’s the villain!!!!!!! anyway, kristen please be in good movies again i’m begging
Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★½ 5

Rotten Tomatoes: 34%
Metacritic Metascore: 54
IMDB: 5.5
51/100
Release Date: 13 December 2019
Distributor: Amazon
Budget: $9M
Worldwide Gross: $585K
Total Film Awards: TBD
2020 Ranked
Jean Seberg: "This country is at war with itself."
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
Jamal's marriage and educational trust were destroyed when details of his affair with Seberg were leaked by the FBI. What should have been a taut thriller turns out to be a disappointment due to the rather flat direction by Benedict Andrews, he doesn't deliver on the sharp script…
Review by davidehrlich ★★ 8

A fitting punishment for anyone who felt that “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” didn’t lavish enough love upon the late Sharon Tate, Benedict Andrews’ blandly ill-conceived “Seberg” is proof enough that extra screen time isn’t the secret to a more satisfying cinematic séance.
Which isn’t to say that this scattered look at the last years of Jean Seberg’s life gives the actress its undivided attention. Less a biopic about the “Breathless” star than a paranoid thriller that revolves around her fateful role in the FBI’s COINTELPRO surveillance program, Andrews’ film might position Seberg as its subject, but it ultimately just uses her as a screen on which to project a story about someone else. Whereas Quentin Tarantino suffused Tate’s…
Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★½ 7

The trailer truly scared me into thinking this could be awful, but I actually liked this film quite a bit. I'm a sucker for a good biopic and Jean Seberg was one of my top thirty favorite actors of all time. I've read her history, seen most of her films (even the obscure ones), and visited her grave a handful of times. So it seems like this film was made for me.
I remember seeing Kirsten Dunst on David Letterman several years ago; it was probably around 2003 or 2004. She had a short pixie cut and claimed she wanted to play Jean Seberg. Cut to over fifteen years later when Kristen Stewart landed the coveted role. I don't know…
Review by ethan

well....... at least kristen stewart got that check
Review by Logan Kenny ★★★ 2

funniest movie of the year. almost certainly an astronomical mistake but I had a blast. the framing Andrews uses to tell this particular story is maybe the worst he could have ever used, and that is pretty consistent with the majority of decisions made. just thinking about Anthony Mackie doing the black power fist to Kristen Stewart on a plane while they stare at each other with fuck me eyes, and curling up into a ball in hysterics
Review by marcricov ★★½ 2

Supporting Kristen Stewart through these hard times because that’s the kind of crazed fan that I am.
Review by matt lynch ★★½ 3

Definitely made me want to rewatch PAINT YOUR WAGON.
Review by Jaime Rebanal ★½ 1

Something about the way in which Seberg is told just feels like it's doing the worst sort of disservice to the sort of person that Jean Seberg was. Among other things, trying to create a martyr figure out of an FBI agent during this time, especially when they played a role within bringing her to her downfall just feels so tone-deaf. But this also doesn't even feel like it's a film that's about Jean Seberg either, which becomes one of the biggest missteps that this film could ever make.
Kristen Stewart is great as Jean Seberg, and there's a great film that could be made about her life too - sadly, this isn't it.
Review by <Todd> ★★

"You run around here with a handful of nails looking for a cross to die on" -Hakim Jamal,
AND
"I won't stop... do you hear me... I'll never stop" - Jean Seberg
- 2020 Ranked: boxd.it/4zdAI
The government spied on a white woman!!!!! Did someone tell Karen?
I found this film to be tone deaf in a number of areas and also to lack anything of real value or interest which I think a movie about this topic should possess. It's a completely meh film with messages like "some of the FBI agents that tried to take down black movements were actually pretty nice" and "have you guys heard of racism?" I love Kristen Stewart and films about this era so it was hard to fuck this up for me but this movie is boring and safe, and somehow Jean Seberg's character is underdeveloped despite a whole damn movie being about her.
Review by Jack ★★ 1

Seberg downplays Jean Seberg’s tragic life to instead deliver superficial Oscar bait trash that doesn’t dig deep enough into the paranoia prevalent throughout her life. This could’ve been so much more, but ultimately feels like every other bio-pic: a pallid look at an engrossing figure. Doing an absolute disservice to Kristen Stewart’s fiery central performance.
Review by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim ★★ 1

probably unbearable if k stew weren't so magnetic to watch. was at least vibing with the utterly despicable portrayal of the FBI until they gave one a conscience blech. but lmao i died when she raised her fist immediately after meeting a black panther.

Recent reviews

Review by essiewt

Not good but also not as bad as you've heard
Review by Arlette25 ★★★★

almost everyone in this movie is beautiful
good movie ab performative activism
Review by drlion ★★★½

entertaining.
Review by Andrew Wright ★★½

A dramatic and unfortunate oversimplification of the late Jean Seberg’s life, turning her into little more than a paranoid puppet with little-to-no agency over her own destiny. Kristen Stewart has some strong moments, but the character and the script-at-large are too single-minded for her to truly shine.
Review by Joseph Robinson ★★

Great costuming. Good use of Scott Walker & Nina Simone on the soundtrack. Limp script, complete with FBI tears
Review by kcf98 ★★

do they make kristen stewart star in terrible movies on purpose?
Review by bbblase ★★

one of the most surface level biopics which is so unfortunate because a Jean Seberg biopic that shows fully showcases her acting, involvement with the Black Panthers, and gradual rise of paranoia + depression due to the FBI would be 10x better than what this was.
kristen stewart really was the only saving grace, her acting just needs to be poured into better films
Review by Torajima ★★½

Says something, that the FBI agent has the most compelling story arc in the film.
And it isn't even that compelling.
Logs an interesting chapter in Jean Seberg's life, yet fails to find an angle to make something interesting.
Prime Video.
Review by SebastienPH ★★ 1

A great Jean Seberg fact: after finding out Seberg had slept with Clint Eastwood while working on Paint Your Wagon together, Seberg's husband Romain Gary flew to LA and challenged Clint to a pistol duel to the death.
Clint ran away.
Anyways, too bad this movie sucks.
Review by Roderich ★★★★ 3

Enemy of the State - Der Staatsfeind Nr. 1
"Jean Seberg – Against all Enemies" (Originaltitel Seberg) ist ein US-amerikanischer, britischer Thriller aus dem Jahr 2019.
Der Film beleuchtet das Privatleben der amerikanischen Schauspielerin Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), in der wohl schwersten Phase ihrer Lebensgeschichte. Berühmt wurde sie durch ihre Rolle im Nouvelle-Vague-Film "Außer Atem" (Originaltitel: À bout de souffle) aus dem Jahr 1960. Dieser französische Gangsterfilm war der erste Langfilm von Jean-Luc Godard,
Aufgrund einer amourösen Beziehung zu dem Bürgerrechtsaktivisten Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie) gerät sie in den Fokus des FBI. Zu Beginn wird sie noch als Randfigur eingestuft aber recht schnell wird sie als Bedrohung für den Staat angesehen. Was mit einer harmlosen Observierung beginnt steigert sich in…
Review by Katie

Pretty standard, by the numbers bio-pic. Good but not great. I’d watch Jack O’Connell in anything though.
Review by mdean7 ★★

Next in my Margaret Qualley binge I decided to watch Seberg which is the true story of Jean Seberg, star of Jean-Lic Godard’s Breathless. This takes what is an engaging story and distills it down to a typical biopic. This was really unfortunate as the story surrounding Seberg and the FBI is fascinating. I think the choice to make elements of the FBI sympathetic, specifically Jack O’Connel’s character detracted from the film slightly and was a mistake. If the film had more of a focus on just Seberg it would have honestly been better. The acting for the most part is really solid. Kristen Stewart was really great in this, she brought a lot of depth to a script that…