[1] His father (whose nickname was "Ziggy") was a French journalist who was the chief U.S. correspondent for France Soir in Washington, D.C., for two decades as well as a former president of the Foreign Press Association.

[7] Newsday said, "The film owes much of its success to director of photography Jean De Segonzac, whose alert camera takes in such eccentric details as a copy of The New Sweden on the coffee table of a model mobile home and a kitten lapping water from a miniature kidney-shaped pool.

[9] One reviewer called his images for the film "exceptional cinema verite camera work",[10] while another praised the cinematography as "jumpy, in-your-face".

The film follows Romanian-born poet, novelist and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu around the United States as he attempts to define what it means to be an American (as seen through the eyes of a naturalized citizen).

In February 2007, de Segonzac directed the Law & Order episode "Melting Pot", which was a thinly veiled version of the Shelly murder.

[23] In 1996, de Segonzac's cinematography for John McNaughton's independent crime drama Normal Life[24] (with Luke Perry and Ashley Judd) won him notice for his "hovering, purposefully untidy camerawork".