documentary w/d Ron Rappaport
Fine account of the meteoric rise and sad decline of the young girl from Marshalltown, Iowa who started as 17 yo Saint Joan and ended up a suicide on a side street in Paris, her body not found for two weeks.
She was a victim of the film business and, especially the FBI. Her advocacy of the Black Panthers put her on J. Edgar Hoover's hit list; she was hounded/pursued by the feds until she finally gave up. She was a creature of her time, a kind-hearted girl chewed up and spit out by the minions of the ruling class for daring to suggest the extant power system needed change.
Film was done with re-enactments and a narration of a surviving Jean in the person of an actress looking back at her life...a very effective technique.
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