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    SHORT TAKES

    Feb 02, 2020 1 minute

    SEBERG

    directed by Benedict Andrews

    Just as Margot Robbie cut a striking figure as tragic tinseltown It-girl Sharon Tate in , Kristen Stewart looks utterly groovy as Jean Seberg,. As a biopic, can sometimes feel as if it’s taking place next door to the Tarantino flick, but it’s also much too in love with its own radical chic as it dramatises how she was targeted by the FBI for supporting black activist groups. Stewart delivers a committed performance, but she’s working from a script that offers her banal dialogue and stupid plot twists – like contriving an FBI agent who wrestles with his conscience over the dirty tricks operation against the star. There’s a good movie to be forged from Seberg’s colourful life and sad demise. But this isn’t it.

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