One of the most gripping scenes is when Jackie Kennedy is trying to be convinced to change her bloodied clothes before she gets off of Air Force One back in Washington, D.C. What must have other motorists thought was going on? This obviously wasn’t a planned route. There’s a striking image of the fallen President’s car, top still open, speeding down the highway with a secret service agent still riding on the back. We’ve all seen that footage so many times, but she was there. She could have pushed the President out of the way before the fatal strike. Jackie Kennedy laments that she could have saved her husband. Instead, it shows us a dramatic version of those events quite unlike anything we’ve seen before – namely, from her perspective. Jackie doesn’t shy away from the events of November 22, 1963. We watch Jackie Kennedy give a televised tour of the White House, we then see her being rushed to the hospital with her dead husband in her lap. White (Billy Crudup), to tell her story and the film is told in flashbacks that jump around President Kennedy’s short term in office. Jackie Kennedy is meeting with a reporter, Theodore H. Jackie begins one week after the assassination of President Kennedy. Now that Fox Searchlight has purchased it, that question has been answered by giving it a December release date. The only question was if Jackie would be released in 2016. Portman has a distinct smile and it’s only then when I would think, Oh, yes, that really is Natalie Portman.) I don’t dabble too much into Oscar predictions, but Portman is a lock for a nomination. (It’s uncanny at times how much Portman resembles Jackie Kennedy. In Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, Natalie Portman so embodies the role of Jackie Kennedy that there were times I found myself thinking, What’s Jackie Kennedy doing hanging around a contemporary actor from 2016? I could have used a specific co-star in that last sentence, but it would sound like I’m being disparaging to anyone I mentioned. That problem has been solved with Jackie. Natalie Portman doesn’t need a comeback, she just needs a good role in a good movie. That list includes two Thor movies (the problem with those is they didn’t give her much to do) the underrated but barely seen Your Highness starring opposite Ashton Kutcher in No Strings Attached and the ill-begotten Jane Got a Gun, which had so many production problems I can’t even begin to list them here and I would for sure read a book about that movie. It wasn’t that long ago.)Īnd then I looked at her movies since 2010 and, welllllllll, it’s not the greatest. Basically, there’s talk that Jackie (which just had its Toronto International Film Festival debut this week) is her “comeback” of sorts after winning the Academy Award for Best Actress way back for 2010’s Black Swan. The narrative that Natalie Portman has to somehow re-prove herself as an acting force is a strange one.
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