2/14/2017 - Jackie (2016) – 5+/10

Smartly put together with style and panache, but with a languid stuffiness and slothful pace, the total felt dutifully disagreeable. I recognize the quality but just did not really care for it.
The score was haunting and coarse as Mica Levi’s work brought such intensity. The sound kept things cryptic and on edge. Larrain also broke from the standards of many biopics, delivering a film stylistically different and auteur. It generally looked and felt unique, exuding deference and delicacy in the tight framing and deliberateness of it all.

Despite being uncommon, so much of it appeared tailored and mannered, in appearance and performance. A constrictive story about a cloistered clique, I just felt so unengaged and cold. Portman was “good”, but just seemed to have too many “affectations”. I don’t have a solid point of reference with Mrs. Kennedy/Onasis, but I got the sense of an air of the woman, rather than a full blooded embodiment. That might have a lot to do with the particular story being told along with her performance.

A quality production, but it never-the-less felt boring. During my viewing, it seemed monotonous and unending, which are never great feelings to experience during a movie going enterprise. I did not hate it, and even respect it for much of what it did, I just didn’t really like it. Blah.