Episode 54: Seberg, Starring Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg

Do NOT get us started on J. Edgar Hoover. The tragic life of actress Jean Seberg as seen through the lens of her entanglement with the FBI’s ugly COINTELPRO operations, Seberg is a pretty devastating portrait of a fragile, idealistic woman who is taken advantage of by everyone until she is driven to madness and blacklisted.

It’s not as if this has ever happened before or since.

Join us as we discuss the value of Captain America comments, metaphorical heaviness, the efficacy of bringing a gun into an audition for Paint Your Wagon, the most interesting wife-of-a-cop we’ve ever seen in a movie, our love for Jean, another appearance of too-beautiful-for-history Anthony Mackie, and magical character actor Stephen Root.

Seberg is directed by Benedict Andrews and stars Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg, Anthony Mackie as Hakim Jamal, Jack O’Connell as Jack Solomon, Margaret Qualley as Linette Solomon, Zazie Beetz as Dorothy Jamal, Vince Vaughn as Carl Kowalski, Stephen Root as Walt Breckman, and Yvan Attal as Romain Gary.

Notes: Captain America is a New Deal Democrat: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/10/steven-attewell-steve-rogers-isnt-just-any-hero

 

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