Portman is amazing in this & the film really adds a rarely discussed aspect about this story. This is not your typical JFK movie.

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 2017)

"For one brief shining moment there was Camelot." Jackie Kennedy (Portman) has just lost her husband. When a reporter shows up at her house to interview her he isn't sure what to expect. She begins to relate to him the events after the assassination, how she was feeling and how she planned the funeral. This is a movie I was really looking forward to. I am huge into history and specifically into the Kennedy Assassination events. The only problem with movies about JFK is that they tend to keep repeating themselves without adding all that much to what has already been discussed. There have been three that stand out as being different and actually different. One is JFK, dealing with the court case. Recently, Parkland added a whole new dimension as it focused on the peripheral players and not the assassination itself. This one is added to that list. This movie deals with a subject not covered before. The movie follows Jackie from the time of the shooting through the funeral. How and why she planned it the way she did, and other emotional aspects that I never really thought about. Portman absolutely owns this roll and I am really shocked she didn't win the Oscar. The movie is about an event everyone knows about, but her performance is so perfect that it makes it feel real and more emotional than any other movie I have seen about this subject. There are a few technical aspects I don't think were accurate but that aside this is a movie that I can not recommend more. Overall, Portman is amazing in this movie and this film really adds a rarely discussed aspect about this story. This is not your typical JFK movie. I loved it. I give this an A+.