Jackie (2016)
After her husband's assassination, Jackie Kennedy's (Natalie Portman) world is completely shattered. The movie follows her fight through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.
18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
11 October 1963
7 March 1971, Belleville, Illinois, USA
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
18 June 1957, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
6 June 1967, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
March 22, 2017
A movie that is as brilliant as it is frustrating.
December 22, 2016
This is a movie about power, and its spectacle is that of a woman almost losing all of it. Larrain portrays all of this with the appropriate degree of horror and sorrow.
December 15, 2016
Together [director Larrain and star Portman] trap the character on film, like a rose frozen in a block of ice.
March 22, 2017
This is essentially asking us to celebrate the birth of spin in modern politics.
April 11, 2017
A look at a woman who uses the cameras to transmit the version that suits her. Part of Jackie's success lies in not knowing when we are seeing the woman or her creation. [Full review in Spanish]
January 30, 2017
[Portman is] at her best here in the moments when Jackie is quiet, when the grief, anger and doubt are in her face more than in her words.
December 20, 2016
Portman is simply brilliant, getting to the essence of Jackie without resorting to a mere impersonation.
March 23, 2017
As a whole, the movie is very cold. Director Pablo Larraín shoots much of it in a very controlled, almost Kubrickian way
March 15, 2017
Jackie is a great recreation of a very important time and context, but it didn't stimulated me emotionally or intellectually as much as I would have liked. [Full review in Spanish]
December 16, 2016
"Jackie" is a gamble, and Portman makes it pay off.
March 15, 2017
Larraín is an artist, and his skills show throughout, both in his ability to meld so many different sequences into a narrative whole and in how effectively he uses Portman to portray one of the world's most memorable figures.
December 18, 2016
The title character never emerges from the iconic shell she inhabits to become a fully fleshed-out individual and the filmmakers are perhaps too reverential to make her seem real.
