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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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]
