drops the ball, approaching the actress’s story and harassment at the hands of the government with surprising cowardice, taking an unfounded “both sides” stance in portraying the FBI investigation.
The film meets Seberg in the early 1960s, as she flips through boring scripts in her glass coffin of a Hollywood home, pining for a greater purpose. So when she encounters Black Power activist Hakim Jamal on a flight, Seberg decides to aid the movement. She begins a brief relationship with Jamal and writes several checks for thousands of dollars to the Panthers.
It’s not clear why the FBI considered Seberg such a dramatic threat, other than the organization disliked her sex life and the fact that a famous white woman was hanging out with black radicals. G.C. Moore, an FBI official who headed part of the program, repeatedly referred to Seberg as a “promiscuous and sex-perverted white actress,”.
Viewers don’t need to see the FBI’s side of Seberg’s story, redeemed through the movie’s artistic license because the organization has already told it and shaped it for decades. In the form of its heroic fictional FBI agent,
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