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Jean Seberg: Roles
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Most sources close to Jean believe that she took her own life. She had suffered deblitating bouts of depression for some nine years by that point. Rumour mongers and conspiracy theorists may still like to suggest otherwise, but in truth Jean Seberg's suicide was sadly not unexpected by those who knew what she had been through. She had seemed quite determined to do it. Although there was some talk of her return to acting at the time of her death, this is by no means any more than speculation. She had turned down offers of roles from both Truffaut and Donald Cammell in the months preceding her death, although she was apparently enthusiastic about a possible but then unconfirmed role that would have reunited her with her "Bonjour Tristesse" co-star David Niven. The film, "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", was made in 1980, with Elke Sommer assuming the role that Jean had been set to play.
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Jean Seberg (November 13, 1938 – September 8, 1979) was an American actress. She starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in France. Seberg became even more of an icon after her roles in numerous French films and the tragedy of her turbulent life and eventual suicide.
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In “Curtain Call” Adams extracts a single shot from Godard’s Breathless (replayed in slow motion) that shows Jean Seberg opening a set of curtains and lifting her skirt up to throw it outside over the window sill. Adams inserts an inscription in graffiti on the outside wall under the window that Seberg’s billowing skirt partially conceals as it falls. It reads: “ILS VOIENT NOS FEMMES ON VOIT PAS LES LEURS.” This racial slur was a street expression used by Pied Noirs during Algeria’s War of Independence. On the one hand, Adams collapses two distinct scenes from French History, linked only by their shared time period, and on the other hand, he creates a playful fictional role for Seberg, suggestive of her real-life political intrigues.
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The short 2000 film Je t'aime John Wayne is a tribute parody of Breathless, with Camilla Rutherford playing Seberg's role. Actress Kirsten Dunst has proposed making a film about Seberg's life. The Irish band, The Divine Comedy, make reference to 'Little Jean Seberg' in their song titled "Absent Friends".
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