The Dilemma of “Jackie”: Beautiful to Behold, Unbearable to Watch

[This review will also appear at Film Festival Today, and when it does, I will link to that review.] Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016) We first meet her in close-up, shot in muted grays and blues, with a series of oddly centered compositions, smoking, walking, and then greeting a journalist – never named, but clearly Theodore White – who has come to … Continue reading The Dilemma of “Jackie”: Beautiful to Behold, Unbearable to Watch