Depressing

Rating: 3/10 (5 March 2017)

I am so glad I won a ticket to see this as I would have greatly regretted paying cash to suffer through it. Firstly from my memory of Jackie Kennedy in tele news etc I think Natalie Portman played her perfectly. I'd forgotten how annoying that voice and manner were, but there it was on screen totally brought back to life. The low rating I've given this is for the utterly depressing look at a major moment and person in history. Yes Jackie was annoying but surely there was something positive about her, if so we don't get to see it. This flatness of character was as depressing as the funereal music and the faithless depressed priest (what a lack of comfort for a grieving woman). No-one in this portrayal, even her children, seem to like Jackie, everyone appears to tolerate her, surely there was more to her than that. I feel sorry that for Jackie it seems she was totally defined by her husband in life and in this portrayal at least she is defined by his death and her coping with it. It would have been such a better movie if we had seen beyond this one small moment in her life, it would have been then more worthy of the title Jackie.