I've always liked Natalie Portman a lot in everything I've ever seen in her in, but after seeing Jackie: Jacqueline Kennedy - 2016 Full Movie, I think I'm in love with her...the film, which follows Jackie Kennedy in the days when she was First Lady in the White House, and her life immediately following the assassination of her husband, is very, very good...the plot focuses on Theodore H. White's Life magazine interview with the widow at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts (an occurrence that I've read so much about that there wasn't really any new information for me here), but it's not actually the film that's so remarkable, it's Portman herself...I've seen many portrayals of the 35th FLOTUS over the years, but this performance is downright Streepian in its channeling effect of Mrs. Kennedy's very essence...
Don't get me wrong...the film is beautifully shot and edited, and I like just about all of the casting...putting veteran southern character actress Beth Grant Actor in the role of Lady Bird Johnson, for example, is a brilliant idea...one thing, though...I'm a fan of Peter Saarsgard, but I'm not exactly sure why he was cast as Bobby Kennedy, (which is the second biggest part in the movie)...he didn't exactly ruin the film for me, but that casting choice just seemed rather wrong-headed in my opinion...but every other thing about the movie gets it just right, I think...
It is interesting in a gut-wrenchingly painful way to see the events that you've read so much about over the years be dramatized in this way from Jackie Kennedy's perspective...the film is aptly named because Portman is in every frame of it, and she's a revelation...I'll be shocked if she doesn't at least get an Oscar nod for this one...
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