From the Journals of Jean Seberg plot
Jean Seberg's (1938) life took off when she was chosen at the age of seventeen - out of thousands of competitors - to play the lead role of Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan. She also starred in Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse, but both films failed to catch on. However, with her unforgettable role as an American beatnik in Godard's film debut A Bout de Souffle, Seberg made film history, after which she played leading roles in various international productions. In the 1960s, Seberg was involved in the Black Panther movement. After several marriages to famous husbands and a period in which drink and drugs were a major part, the FBI portrayed her as a sexually perverted person and Seberg miscarried, her life ended in an alleged suicide in 1979.