Mark Rappaport
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
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Year 1995-2016
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Mark Rappaport
Sous-titres French
Booklet 52 pages (French, English)
Running time 151 min
Films
FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG (1995) 97'
BECOMING ANITA EKBERG (2014) 17'
DEBRA PAGET, FOR EXAMPLE (2016) 37'
Description
Mark Rappaport, a New Yorker by birth, worked as an editor before making his own films, among which we can cite The Scenic Route (1978), Impostors (1980), Postcards (1990) and Exterior Night (1994). His essay films include Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995) and The Silver Screen / Color Me Lavender (1998). Many of his writings on cinema have been published in Trafic over the years, as well as in Cinéma. Le spectateur qui en savait trop is the first collection of his writings. In 2008, his film made from photomontages was screened for the first time at Lincoln Center in New York, as part of the New York Film Festival. Mark Rappaport currently lives in Paris.
This deconstruction of the life and career of this Midwest girl, an old Hollywood star at 19, a New Wave icon at 21, and a suicide at 40, is undertaken by Seberg herself, as embodied by Mary Beth Hurt. The wit and inventiveness of Rappaport's script, combined with the inexhaustible flow of disillusioned observations and judiciously chosen, nervously edited film excerpts, make this a remarkably stimulating work.