Film: "Jackie"
A searing psychological portrait of Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) in the weeks following her husband’s assassination.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 was one of those moments that defined a generation. Eschewing standard biopic form at every turn, Pablo Larrain’s searing psychological portrait observes the exhausted, conflicted Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) as she attempts to disentangle her own perspective from a tragedy shared by millions. Portman’s meticulously layered performance “may just trump her Oscar-winning turn in Black Swan as the most high-wire feat she’s ever pulled off” (Variety). D: Pablo Larrain, US/Chile, 2016, 99m
“A fragmented mosaic that comes together into a portrait of sometimes almost unbearable emotional intensity, it's also a sharply observed account of how the wheels of the political machine keep turning, even in times of devastating trauma.” Hollywood Reporter
