8/10 For one brief moment there was a Camelot

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2017)

I have said many times that the best films this year are based on true events and this falls into that category .
It's not perfect and at one point it was only worthy of a 6/10 as the pace was slow in the first quarter and the film felt quite flat . But it all changed when the children were introduced suddenly you were inside the mind of a woman who had the most enormous pressure on her to have the almost impossible task of grieving privately whilst being exposed to the world's thirsty insatiable press .
Natalie Portman's portrayal was extremely good but slightly overshadowed by Peter Saarsgard as Bobby , there was a good supporting cast including English actors John Hurt RiP and Richard E Grant ( he might be South African ? )
The film's sequence was unusual but as you get drawn in to the character you realise it was actually clever script writing , this was an insight into true royalty and has parallels with the death of Diana .
The biopic stops short of her life as Jackie Onassis nor does it even attempt to become a biopic about her it's really about the death of JFK and the aftermath from her point of view
Definitely worth a watch but expect to shed a tear or two