"Jackie" (2016) Directed by Pablo Larrain

“I never wanted fame. I just became a Kennedy”

Being both a lifetime film fanatic with an intense fascination for the life, presidency and ultimately assassination of John F Kennedy, I was incredibly eager to see this film as soon as it was released in the UK. I was not disappointed and three subsequent viewings later this is a rare film that stays with you long after you’ve left the darkness of the cinema. I may have a conflict of interest in a way, as since my late teens I have read and collected numerous books on the life of her husband, JFK, consider Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK my favourite all time film despite it’s flaws and bombastic style, and ultimately hold JFK in the highest esteem as my political hero as he strove constantly for peace and historic political change across all areas of American life, from the internal reforms of the CIA and FBI through to constitutional change and equality for all. But this film does not venture into any of that territory, and deliberately so, with no specific focus on JFK or his political aspirations and desires for change but rather on his horrified widow in the immediate days following her husband’s assassination.

The above opening paragraph is taken from my original spoiler free review of "Jackie" originally penned and published to my Medium blog site on 29th November 2021 and can be read in full and for free (please also consider subscribing for free too!) via my Substack blog site and original article linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/jackie-by-pablo-larrain-9082d266d145

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