She was the darling icon of French New Wave Cinema in the 1950s & 60s, who was actually from Marshalltown, Iowa. Seberg's career as an actress carried her through 24 different films, but she's best remembered for her role as Patricia, an American college student, whose life becomes intertwined with the slick handsome Parisian scoundrel, Michel, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo. Tonight TCM is showing Lilith, which was the seventh film of her career and debuted in 1964. The film is part of a Tuesday night block of films with a theme exploring psychiatry and psychology. Starring Seberg and Warren Beatty, the film is set in a mental institution and tells the story of a therapist who becomes dangerously obsessed with his seductive, schizophrenic patient.
It's a shame thinking about this film considering the outcome of Seberg's life and her eventual suicide, her passing accompanied by the suicide note reading "Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves". Seberg was talented and beautiful and unfortunately was gone too soon. Our only consolation is that as with so many artists, she lives on in the works she left behind.
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