Deauville (AFP)
American actress Kristen Stewart presented Friday in Deauville "Seberg", a thriller in which the icon of the new wave sees her life destroyed by the FBI because she funded the Black Panthers.
At the end of the 1960s, "the FBI defamed Jean Seberg and illegally gained information to sabotage his career and his private life, and what is crazy is that we only know it now because it was camouflaged successfully, "the actress who was replying to Robert Pattinson in" Twilight "told reporters in Deauville.
The release in France of "Seberg" in which also play Anthony Mackie, Vince Vaughin and Ivan Attal (in the role of Romain Gary, husband of Jean Seberg) "is not fixed" according to his distributor.
Screened Friday night in a room of 1,500 people as part of the American film festival Deauville, the film was briefly applauded by the public.
The icon of "Out of breath" had "had to emigrate and she never came back because she had been attacked really violently," added the actress who received the Cesar award for the best actress in a second part for "Sils Maria" by French director Olivier Assayas.
The film based on "facts, and FBI documents" is "not a biopic about John's life, I wanted to focus on what happened to him between 1968 and 1971," adds director Benedict Andrews press kit of the film.
"John was by no means the biggest victim of this campaign of systematic harassment and persecution by the FBI, his fate is a sort of tragedy, a life of light destroyed by the machinery of state surveillance." continues the Australian director who signs his second feature film.
For Benedict Andrews, "John's story directly reflects our current reality: the awesome racism of American politics, the challenge of distinguishing truth from lies in the so-called fake news era, and a culture of mass surveillance" .
Led by Edgar Hoover, the FBI conducted a ruthless war that led to the break-up of the Black Panthers in the late 1970s. This campaign was condemned by the Congress according to the film.
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