Peeling away the artifice of the Kennedy legacy to reveal the raw nerve of failed idealism, Jackie is a bewitching study of mythmaking that underlines Larraín’s status as cinema’s most daring political filmmaker.
Natalie Portman is remarkable in a thrillingly unconventional biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy from Pablo Larraín.
Jackie does what the very best biopics should: it makes you view someone you’ve seen countless times as if you were seeing them anew.
Portman’s Oscar-worthy work crowns an unconventional study of an icon, while Mica Levi’s score is sublime.
It’s the incongruity of the Jackie Kennedy story told in Pablo Larrain’s Jackie that makes the film so compelling.
I feel Jackie gets a little bit of a free ride in simply fabricating the look of iconic images, moments and public figures.
Thanks to the fine direction of Pablo Larraín and a nuanced, moving performance from Natalie Portman, Jackie is no hagiography but a powerful study of the First Lady’s fight to control and shape her world in the wake of JFK’s assassination.
Clever, beautiful images about a clever, beautiful image-maker.
The result is a fascinating film with a complex, moving performance from Natalie Portman.
Natalie Portman is extraordinary as JFK’s widow, but the real star of Pablo Larraín’s kaleidoscopic film is Mica Levi’s score.
A beautifully realised, and at times bitterly ironic work as the American myth is shattered in pulped brain and splintered bone.
Jackie: behind the creation of JFK, America's once and future king.
Pablo Larrain's Jackie.
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