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Jackie

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Directed by Pablo Larraín, Jackie is a biographical drama that premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, winning the Platform Prize. The film stars Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, and John Hurt.

JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Portman). JACKIE places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of “Camelot” that they created and loved so well.

“Jackie was a queen without a crown, who lost both her throne and her husband,” says Larraín. “Stylish, desirable, sophisticated, Jacqueline Kennedy was one of the most photographed and documented women of the 20th century. And yet, we know very little about her. Intensely private and inscrutable, she may be the most unknown known woman of the modern era. I like to think we’ll never be entirely sure about her. We’ll never know her smell, or the sparkle in her eyes when in her presence. All we can do is search. And put together a film made of fragments. Slices of memory. Places. Ideas. Images. People.”

Jackie is rated PG.

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