Approriate Dirge Dramatizes Jackie's Mournful Week Post Assassination

Rating: 8/10 (18 April 2017)

The Number of Pages Written about the JFK Assassination and the Footage of Documentaries about the JFK Assassination would Reach to the Moon. Jackie Kennedy not so much. In Fact, so Inconsequential as to be almost Invisible by Comparison.
That's one of the Fascinating and Interesting Things that this Movie can do and it Delivers, although the Focus, in this Ultra-Focused Exploration is the Week or so Following the Ill-Advised, Open-Top Trip to Dallas that Ended the Presidency and Ended the Life of Her Husband and Father of Their Children.
The Film is very Personal, linked to the Political and Social Concerns. How to Usher JFK to His Final Resting Place with Familial Respect, LBJ almost Instantaneously stepping into the Presidency, National Security and the Images that will be Presented for the Public Ceremony.
Natalie Portman who Occupies Virtually Every Scene, gives a Mannered, Believable, Representation of the Widowed Jackie and Suspension of Disbelief is Solidified. The rest of the Cast do Fine in Limited Roles. But it is Portman as Jackie and the Burden that Mrs. Kennedy Suffers that is the Root and the Rotten Fruit of the Film.
All of the Iconic Images that were Captured at the Time are Inserted Unobtrusively to give the Outer Layer of the Events. Starting with the Much Seen "Tour of the White House" that was Aired on National TV, that Interweaves In and Out of the Movie.
To the Exit of Air Force one in Dallas, the Actual Murder, Johnson's Swearing in Aboard the Plane, Etc. are here to Anchor the Background but what is New is the Attempted Insight into Jackie's Thoughts, Behavior, and Near Breakdown in the Days Immediately Following November 22, 1963 and the Movie Pulls Few Punches.
Overall, it is a Mesmerizing Performance in an Appropriate Dirge of a Drama, Speculating, Probing, Heartbreaking, Disturbing, and the Film Demands that You Set Your Sights and Expectations Only on the Initial Shock and the Mourning Period that Jackie Experienced.