Review of Jackie (2016) by Nguyen Thuy H — 27 Oct 2017
It's easy to have a knee-jerk hateful reaction to a character constructed so vacantly, and I'm not even sure if the film's ideas are well thought out, but its pretentiousness and airiness kind of click for me.
Natalie Portman's performance reminds me of any number of Daniel-Day Lewis's acclaimed ones, which means that it's a rigid show of technicality, without much intuition. The difference is here, the film's muddled mess of self-contradictory dialogues helps her performance because it destabilizes it, whereas Daniel Day-Lewis's characters are always presented as impenetrable armor in scripts that do not allow for reflexivity.
This review of Jackie (2016) was written by Nguyen Thuy H on 27 Oct 2017.
Jackie has generally received positive reviews.
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