Review of In the French Style

A slight but entertaining drama starring Jean Seberg as an American art student studying in Paris and finding that love can be a pretty cruel thing. She falls in and out of love over the next four or five years, first with duplicitous Philippe Forquet and then with globe-trotting reporter Stanley Baker. Seberg asserts herself nicely carrying the film, changing appearance from fetching student to principled adult. She's terrific as is Baker, though it's never really clear if he's a cad or if he really cares for Seberg. Irwin Shaw's script is a little too ambiguous for its own good. Directed by Robert Parrish and featuring Addison Powell as Seberg's not so forgiving father. The beautiful, sparingly used score is by Joseph Kosma.