I wrote a thoughtful review of this film but stated that KS gave another limp performance and some enraged fan took my entire review down so I will try again!
I normally don't comment on other reviewer's opinions since they are entitled to them as much as I am mine, but since y'all took mine down I will say it is sad to see so many 10/10 reviews whose only comments are to say Kristian Stewart is a great actor and this must be a good film because Bella from Twilight cannot possibly be in a bad film! And contain no assessment of the actual film or the reasons why it is good or bad.
Newsflash: This isn't a fan-page, its a movie review site.
To the review: this is not a great movie, but there are some good aspects to it - the art direction and period are true to form and the acting from the supporting actors is excellent.
Kristen Stewart gives her usual stuttering, stop-start lines while looking off into the distance, shaking her head, shifting her eyes back and forth (Like Joey from Friends doing math in his head) then refocusing and throwing down a line off the top of her head routine, all of which makes my skin crawl. She reminds me of Woody Allen. But without the humor.
The only movie I liked her in was Kelly Reichardt's 'Certain Women,' probably because she dropped the act and used props (eating and drinking coffee) instead. I read that Reichardt made Stewart use the actual words the writers toiled for months over instead of whatever came into her head, so good for Reichardt.
I don't understand the point of this movie: are we supposed to feel for this rich, bored, privileged, famous woman who dabbles in the civil rights movement for a second because she is apparently disillusioned with her empty life? According to the film, all Seberg did was write a few checks, get her picture taken with some real activists, and cheat on her husband with a married black man.
Thank God there were people fighting the real fights while the she stood around virtue signalling.
Are we supposed to sympathize with her because she was wire-tapped by the FBI? Do the filmmakers know what happened to real civil rights activists?
I am sure there is more to the story but this film failed to show me any reason to feel for this woman.
Empty is the best word for this movie I can think of. It's pretty to look at but otherwise empty, banal pointless.
I normally don't comment on other reviewer's opinions since they are entitled to them as much as I am mine, but since y'all took mine down I will say it is sad to see so many 10/10 reviews whose only comments are to say Kristian Stewart is a great actor and this must be a good film because Bella from Twilight cannot possibly be in a bad film! And contain no assessment of the actual film or the reasons why it is good or bad.
Newsflash: This isn't a fan-page, its a movie review site.
To the review: this is not a great movie, but there are some good aspects to it - the art direction and period are true to form and the acting from the supporting actors is excellent.
Kristen Stewart gives her usual stuttering, stop-start lines while looking off into the distance, shaking her head, shifting her eyes back and forth (Like Joey from Friends doing math in his head) then refocusing and throwing down a line off the top of her head routine, all of which makes my skin crawl. She reminds me of Woody Allen. But without the humor.
The only movie I liked her in was Kelly Reichardt's 'Certain Women,' probably because she dropped the act and used props (eating and drinking coffee) instead. I read that Reichardt made Stewart use the actual words the writers toiled for months over instead of whatever came into her head, so good for Reichardt.
I don't understand the point of this movie: are we supposed to feel for this rich, bored, privileged, famous woman who dabbles in the civil rights movement for a second because she is apparently disillusioned with her empty life? According to the film, all Seberg did was write a few checks, get her picture taken with some real activists, and cheat on her husband with a married black man.
Thank God there were people fighting the real fights while the she stood around virtue signalling.
Are we supposed to sympathize with her because she was wire-tapped by the FBI? Do the filmmakers know what happened to real civil rights activists?
I am sure there is more to the story but this film failed to show me any reason to feel for this woman.
Empty is the best word for this movie I can think of. It's pretty to look at but otherwise empty, banal pointless.