Jean Seberg Interview

[adamdyerseve]

i love her face. perfect

[grizzlychris2]

I'm in love with her.

[TheSolaris810]

We shouldnt be harsh on the interviewer, she wasnt fawning, and the questions were direct and interesting, and Jean Seberg appears to respond favourably and sometimes playfully to the no nonsense approach. Seberg was such a compelling beauty and talent, completely unaffected here, vulnerable, refreshingly honest, and her social awareness (Civil Rights) is thankfully acknowledged.

[coolershaker]

I really love that moment when she refers to Truffaut as a young radical film critic...yeah that haircut!!!

[basehead617]

no one hotter.. ever..

[time4iowa]

I'm sorry James, that you can't attend the JS International Film Festival- it is going to be a FABULOUS event. And we are planning on having another one next year, so be sure to check out the Orpheum Theater Center website for details.

[kevyk135]

You know a girl is real hot is when they can pull off a short hair cut.

[britishtwiggy]

that haircut!

[JamesReclaimed]

She is very classy replying the way she did to the vicious reporter. And she is so modest. One of the best actresses, my favorite.

[ghali274623]

elle etait suicidait parce que elle ete pas muslimanne 

[wasittoyou]

Jean n'etait pas seulement tres belle. Elle avait de la classe (ce qui n'est pas evident dans le monde pourri des journos)

Ici on lui tend un piege durant l'interview, mais elle n'y tombe pas. Jean est inoubliable, tands que la "dadame" qui conduit l'interview est depuis et pour toujours dans les oubliettes.

[pat10021]

Jean has a strong American accent, but she expresses herself

beautifully in French.

Interviewer is a bitch...I agree

[kiroyale]

Incredibly thoughtful responses, her grace under pressure is beautiful. Thank you so much for posting this.

[coinsmr]

I really liked Jean Seberg in the "Moment to Moment." The music was stirring in the film also. I really miss Henry Mancini's talent.

[zoperxplex]

A wack job starting from a long time.

[rose7art]

the interviewer is such an asshole, but jean still replies so kindly

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

Le journaliste est très, très mal élevé!

Mme. Seberg est enchanteur.

[leighgate]

You mean, Jean could not speak a word of French just a few years before this interview? That is amazing.

What a lovely, lovely young woman. I'm so sorry for the way her life ended.

[time4iowa]

Attention Jean Seberg fans! Her hometown of Marshalltown, Iowa is hosting the first International Jean Seberg Film Festival the November 10-13th. Visit The Orpheum Theater Center website for details. It is time, past time, for her to be honored and celebrated. Her grace under pressure, as seen in this video, is just one reason why.

[JamesReclaimed]

@time4iowa I wish I could go...but I can't make it.

[drivingonthevine]

Jean Seberg's acting was way ahead of her time, she was so natural people thought she underacted, her performance in Bonjour Tristesse is brilliant, shame they didn't get her at the time.

[DaftSwank]

Critics are such trolls. Every last one of them. I just saw Bonjour Tristesse over the weekend and she was amazing in it.

[LLLeeeeeeeee]

what a great interview! Madame Seberg is enchanting in this as well as in Lilith, I want to see more movies of hers now ^_^

[trschaefer]

She is an intelligent and attractive woman. She photographs beautifully too. Preminger actually interrupted her natural development as an actress by sticking her in St. Joan. (And by the way, she isn't nearly as terrible in St. Joan as the critics claim.)

[JEP177777]

Le pauvre tristesse.

[capie44]

"...by the strength or pwoer of an actor,..." which is destroyed by the director thinking the poor directing habits of shaking the camera (third eye realism), .75-1.3 scene changes, choking the screen with the actors faces (including 3/4's of his face off the screen), & pan in/pan left/then suddenly pan out, cutting the action scenes(already cut by too-soon scene changes) short b4 the car is finished rolling over AND other distracting audience-raped habits directors do today is really great art!

[EloiseDecember]

I think Europe was hard for her because it seems to me that she is an all American girl at heart (despite the fact that she could be French to look at and certainly her command of the language is amazing esp for someone who was loathe to remain away from America). I am glad I watched this interview because she is sweet and endearing and intelligent.

[cannellout]

@CosmicArdency

sorry but the interviewer is France Roche (born 1921 and fortunately still alive) who used to be a quite famous movie journalist in the sixties (she was married to François Chalais, another tv "star" of the time). France Roche worked successfully till 1986 for the french public television "Antenne 2" and ended her long career in cable and movie channels.In her youth she was casted for minor roles or appearances in several movies. Later she also wrote scripts.

[darong619]

why'd jean kill herself? She was beautiful

[Sanoj1234567]

@darong619 lol

[listentome94]

@darong619 In 1970 there was huge scandal when she got pregnant by Carlos Navarra while married. The FBI was mad @ her for participating in Black Panther movement. Even tho the baby was Carlos' she claimed @ 1st that her husband (25 yrs older) was the dad. FBI printed story saying a panther was the dad. She was shockEd, had baby prematurely & it died @ 3 days. Ruined her career, caused depression. In 79 she killed herself @ 40.

[ahmad201020111]

That interviewer is a very bad bitch.

i love jean seberg <3 , she was great and beautiful actress

LOOK WHAT SHE SAID IN 2:6

MARLON BRANDO MADE GREAT ACTORS & ACTRESSES

MARLON BRANDO LEGEND .

[Iucifer]

if I was there I'd slap the interviewer harder than who I did punch my friend! then suck my dick deeper, pig! how dare you to my lovely jean

[MrBinieam]

she is just beautiful in every way.Its heartbreaking how her life turned out at the end.I pray that she is in peace.

[dreamlandlover]

She has a beautiful voice

[JackSmash32]

elle est magnifique, tout le contraire de celle qui l'interviewe

[CosmicArdency]

What cow this interviewer is, Jean just continuing being perfectly sweet and accommodating, I wonder if this interviewer is still alive today and what she'd think about how she went about interviewing Jean. Shame.

[larrmock]

@CosmicArdency the interviewer is Minou Petrowski who died a few years ago. She lived in Quebec, Canada for the last forty years and worked as movie journalist and critic. She also woked intensively in France in the sixties. What shocked me when I watched this video is that the interviewer you see for a short moment on two occasions is not her. Listen closely and you hear that the voice is different and there is a cut in the words. Maybe they wanted a more nice looking interviewer to appear.

[CosmicArdency]

@larrmock Thank you very much how interesting, yes I've just gone over it and it does look that way, how odd. your most probably right.

[TheTamblina]

The Interviewer's tough...Jean Seberg was a wonderful, beautiful actress. Her French was great....x

[Armelle1000]

la connasse, belle femme, belle actrice et la vie qu'elle a pu ...

[Davian67]

I love Jean Seberg.  Thanks so much for posting this video. :-)

[levcimac]

RIP Jean xxx

[jexplink]

Jean Seberg is SOOOOOOOOOOO cool. Man I just LOVE her ;)

[choppedlogic]

Seberg felt she had to prove her worth to Preminger...judging from her performance under Godard, Rossen and others, it might have been something lacking in the director...

[redrose91091]

I love how she speaks French!

[SUNMAYDEN518]

yea why dont they show the interviewer?  probably an ugly jealous cow

[moco635]

@SUNMAYDEN518 they do show her 2-3 times..sheessh.shes a bit harsh on Jean big time.

[iluvnola123]

I would heartily disagree that the the interviewer is a bitch...How is she a bitch? Also, does anyone know the name of the interviewer? Jean parlait francais très bien, mais son accent n'était pas bon!

[DA90027]

If I could bitch slap anyone it would be Joyce Haber that bitch that printed that article that was based on the rumor started by that old queen J. Edgar Hoover, who should have died from slow rectal cancer due to his disgusting behavior of ruining lives.

[expos73]

I think the interviewer is is no nonsense but not abusive in any way and Jean did not seem put off by the questions. I think the questions were blunt but ones people would want asked. Just for the record...I'm a big jean seberg fan "Lilith" is my favorite. Is bonjour tristesse available on dvd ?

[earlyperl]

Unfortunately I do not speak French, but I could watch her talk all day. What a beautiful language spoken by a beautiful woman.

[niacha5]

elle est absolument charmante. ce qu'on ne peut pas dire de la journaliste...

[TheThroney]

i just want to reach through the screen and bitch slap that interviewer, and i would also like to jump into the world back when there was no color and everything was black n white.. that would be so cool to live in black n white like it used to be. Jean Seberg is so lovely aswell.

[MazzyDreamer]

I saw Breathless playing in a bar, I was with this guy, I almost had to ignor him because I was so stuck on how beautiful she was.

[TheOdderOne]

whoops, i love her

[steamtray]

Thank you for this. She was one of the most exquisite human beings ever to grace this earth, but also so tortured. She still makes my heart race.

[oldbullifats]

beautiful, i'm really sorry but that's the only word i can say, beautiful

[baddancer73]

thank you for this.

a rare treat.

[7morphy]

Isn't wonderful, what Truffaut wrote about her? Better, about Otto Preminger's "love letter to her"? Lovely, when she says "a jeune critic tres radical, Francois Truffaut..." To me it's the best part of the interview.

[HighFlyinDragon]

Jean Seberg was one of the most beautiful and talented and worthwhile people ever to be on the planet. It's just not right that things went the way they did; makes you want to cry. But there will always be those of us who will recognise her achievements and keep her memory burning bright.

Thank you for this lovely interview.

[TheThroney]

@HighFlyinDragon Sorry to bother you but may i ask what sort of sadness did she have?

[topazrules]

What beauty, poise, articulateness and grace Jean displayed here, not to mention an impressive grasp of speaking in French. How cruel of Preminger's office in New York to send her all those negative reviews, though, especially when she was on vacation and in need of a rest.

[alfonsodavinti]

She is so beautiful, and she has a lovely accent! She speaks french very confidently, we can tell she is comfortable with it. She seems very open and patient. It's so sad what happened later on.

[WriterInSanFrancisco]

It seems to me she just never found the right director to work with. Here she shows a very natural screen presence that was perhaps ahead of its time. She was thrown in the spotlight before she had time to develop as a person.

[diddymuck]

her accent is soooo thick.

[Boona365]

yes, her accent is very apparent but her grammar is pretty much perfect.

[diddymuck]

she committed suicide because her acting skills are marginal at best. The offers stopped coming in.

[stephenhenrywallace]

diddymuck, do you know anything about her life? This is an ignorant, insulting comment designed to get a reaction. She was better than she knew and her suicide, like most suicides, was complex and wasteful. Ask her son.

[diddymuck]

Yes, I do. didn't you read my remark? Her acting skills were marginal.

[mdavis2727]

diddymuck, just making sure if you're aware of the fact that you're a complete idiot.

[diddymuck]

and its plain you've never seen any of her performances. See Airport, Mouse That Roared, and Saint Joan. She's wooden and sounds like she's reading cue cards.

[mdavis2727]

No. What I'm referring to is your unfounded assumption (not to mention callous, judgmental, and ridiculous) that this is why she took her own life. My guess is the reason for that is far more complicated and that you have absolutely no idea what led her to do this tragic act. We could debate about her acting---I happen to like her a great deal. But that wasn't my point.

[stephenhenrywallace]

Point well made mdavis2727. Anyway her performances in Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Five Day Lover and Lilith ( to mention a few) were not 'wooden'. She had crap parts in Airport and The Mouse That Roared and she was 17 in St Joan (not that I think she was 'wooden ' in that either).

[MissLizaMay]

I agree, stephenhenrywallace, she was stunning in Bonjour tristesse.  She had much more talent than some people who are earning million dollar paychecks today.

[stephenhenrywallace]

Thanks MissLizaMay, not many actresses today have her 'grace'. To me, she made Breathless sing as a film. And also Lilith.

[petulia68]

Yes, the interviewer bullied her because she could. I seriously doubt she would have struck the same tone if she were interviewing someone like, well, Romain Gary.

Seberg was more than kind and forthcoming considering the obvious hostility of Le Bitch interviewer.

[skipkent]

A sharp interview beautifully and gracefully handled by Miss Seberg. This should be studied carefully by future interviewers/ees alike!

[OrisLover]

Such a brave woman...she endured so much.

[icallmybabystp]

i thought the journalist did a great job. asking the questions with confidence, free of a sympathetic tone. this is how interviews need to be done. ever see the dick cavett show? he took chances and was never politcally correct. i wonder why he had the most famous and most diverse guests on his show? BECAUSE THEY COULD SEE RIGHT THROUGH THE OTHER JOURNALISTS. cavett was special and would probably praise this woman's candid interview.

[AREUHAREUHPATAPEU]

Hi , i m agree with you "Taf44tt8io", fantastic test of personnality!!!!!!!I fascination

[taf44tt8io]

This journalist is a bitch, a big bastard ! ! I can't understand why SEBERG didn't stop her asshole ! ! !

[sweetsweetcaroline]

She is sooo pretty omg! I got the same haircut as her, lovely!

[Rarab2]

Jesus Christ, it's been said, but that interviewer really wants to rip her to pieces. She's obviously reluctant to talk about her personal problems.

[seberg]

just beautiful

[Darodh]

Quelle connasse cette journaliste !!

What an donkeyhass this journalist ! Que perra esa periodista !

[Zincura]

I think it is interesting when they talk about psychoanalysis like it is a bad thing. Believe me most people could afford to open up to someone else about what is going on with them and engage in a little self exploration. Funny to see how many people have a negative stigma towards therapists. I didn't realize she commited suicide. Seems to me opening up to someone and dealing with her internal judgements, heartaches would of been a positive thing. Very sad.

[stephenhenrywallace]

Yes, I agree. Reading about Jean Seberg one can't help feeling she had difficulty with her family roots in Marshalltown, Iowa and the extreme conservatism of the time. She never denied her connection to Iowa, or her family or her drama teacher etc. Always gave them generous credit but the conflict of leaving there and denying all those values, trying to build another sort of life, must have been conflicting for her. She was such a fifties girl, it was what made her appealing. What a pity, yes.

[Del4Mar]

such a cute person she is! and so hot especially with longer hair. a pity she chose to commit suicide

[kookooboy]

Yes, the interviewer is trying to get ahead in her field by "asking the hard questions" but all it does is make her look inhuman and Jean even more sympathetic. What is this from? And why is it so hard to get ahold of so many of her movies? We need a Seberg retrospective on TCM and a corresponding boxset! Personally, of all her films, I enjoy watching "Bonjour Tristesse" most.

[MissLizaMay]

Agreed, Bonjour Tristesse was wonderful. And despite what this interviewer said, it was not a flop. It wasn't a huge hit, but it paled in comparison to Niven and Kerr's other film that year, Separate Tables.

[choppedlogic]

Exactly. It just made it bigger overseas than it did in the States...that hardly registers as a flop.

[bamagreycoat]

Mudshark Harlot!

[frodo322]

That interviewer is a bitch.

[Substantive64]

@frodo322

Well, she is ,after all....French.

[expos73]

@Substantive64 jean seberg was american from iowa

[Substantive64]

@expos73

Not Jean,THE INTERVIEWER.

[expos73]

@Substantive64 okay my mistake

[14icedtambourines]

this interviewer is viscious! jean handled her quite gracefully though.

[deadforever]

No surprise that Truffaut was the only person smart enough to notice her talent in the early days. The loss of both of them is a tragedy.

[absolutelyems]

jean seberg is one of the most beautiful women i have yet to see. i would kill to look like her!

i find the interviewer quite irritating. i understand she's doing her job but she doesn't have very much tact.