Jackie (2016)
Directed by Pablo Larraín
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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The theme of “Camelot” (the original score with Richard Burton and Julie Andrews is heard) echoes throughout the film as Jackie conducts an exclusive interview with a journalist (played by Billy Crudup of “Almost Famous”).
It's still a bit of a beauty pageant that will satisfy fetishists of her iconic style on a superficial level, and Under the Skin composer Mica Levi's groaning cellos, while embracing the dirge, put Jackie on the same unearthly plane as Scarlett Johansson's alien from that film.
It will come as no surprise to anyone that Levi gave us all that moody music that helped make 2013’s “Under the Skin” so affecting.
“Jackie,” which boasts one of the year’s best, most compelling scores by Mica Levi (“Under the Skin”), tells us little we did not already know and has a lot in common with the 2013 release “Parkland.”
Produced by Darren Aronofsky and boasting a staggering, disorientating string-based soundtrack from Mica Levi (Under the Skin), Jackie has the sophisticated psychological aesthetic of a Jonathan Glazer movie but focuses on one of the most contentious and traumatic events in U.S. history.
The twenty-nine-year-old classically trained experimental composer’s music, like her work for Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin,” is luxurious yet unnerving, sometimes cacophonous, other times disordered, and nothing less than lovely, even thrilling in its own right, but also piercingly, disarmingly subjective to the trauma onscreen.
The film is considerably burdened by a pointlessly weird score by Mica Levy (whose work on the Scarlett Johansson movie Under the Skin was so hair-raisingly effective).
But by the end, lifting the script of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, I say, she certainly sustained the grand illusion [of Camelot] with a marvelous grace.
Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman, Jane Got a Gun) is visited by journalist (Billy Crudup, Spotlight) after the assassination of JFK to get her “definitive” interview on the subject.
Soon, she’ll meet with the journalist (Billy Crudup, Spotlight) approved to document her account of the day John F. Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson, Villads fra Valby) died.
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Like Isabelle Huppert and director Paul Verhoeven on “Elle,” Portman and Larrain are like a dynamic duo.