Jackie: The first lady

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Movie
German title Jackie: The first lady
Original title Jackie
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Country of production United States , Chile , France
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Pablo Larraín
script Noah Oppenheim
production Darren Aronofsky ,
Mickey Liddell ,
Juan de Dios Larraín ,
Scott Franklin ,
Ari Handel
music Mica Levi
camera Stéphane Fontaine
cut Sebastián Sepúlveda
occupation

Jackie: The First Lady (Original title: Jackie ) is a feature film by Pablo Larraín from 2016 . The international co-production is based on an original screenplay by Noah Oppenheim and tells the story of the first wife Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy (played by Natalie Portman ) in the days after the fatal assassination of her husband John F. Kennedy . It is the English-language feature film debut of the native Chilean Larraín.

Jackie: The First Lady premiered in competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2016 . A theatrical release in the USA took place on December 2, 2016. In Germany, the film was released on January 26, 2017.

action

Hyannis Port, late November 1963: Just a week after the murder of her husband John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, known as "Jackie," meets a journalist at the Kennedy family's summer residence. During the interview, she recalls the attack in Dallas , her return to the White House , preparations for her husband's funeral, and escorting his coffin to Arlington National Cemetery . A central role is also played by the (re-staged) television recording in which Jacqueline Kennedy, the wife of the President, leads the American television audience through the White House on February 14, 1962 - the only flashback from the time before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. While talking to an Irish priest towards the end of the film, Jackie struggles with her fate and raises moral questions.

background

The narrative framework of the film is provided by a famous interview that Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a week after the murder of her husband with the reporter Theodore H. White of Life . She mentioned that her husband had a tendency to play recordings for her before bed. Jacqueline Kennedy particularly remembered a line from the Broadway musical Camelot : “Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot .” (Eng. “ Don't let it be forget that there was once a place for a brief glowing moment known as Camelot. ”). In revising his interview notes, White used this phrase as a key phrase and made it appear four times in his one-page article published in Life on December 6, 1963 . From then on, the Kennedy administration was known as "Camelot".

The film was announced back in April 2010, but was still looking for a producing film studio. At the time, British actress Rachel Weisz was to take on the title role, while her partner, American Darren Aronofsky , was slated to direct. It would have been the couple's second collaboration after The Fountain (2006) by then. Weisz competed with the American Katie Holmes , who won the bid for the role of Jackie in the television project The Kennedys (2011). In November 2010, Weisz and Aronofsky separated privately and withdrew from the project. In late September 2012, Natalie Portman was associated with the film project. During the 68th Cannes Film Festival in May 2015 confirmed the participation of Portman, while the Chilean Pablo Larraín was presented as a director of his first English-language feature film. Darren Aronofsky decided to only work as a producer on the film.

reception

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Natalie Portman (left) plays the presidential widow Jackie Kennedy

At the premiere in Venice, the cinema audience honored Jackie with shouts of bravo and ovations. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film currently (as of January 2018) has a rating of 89 percent, based on over 300 English-language reviews and an average rating of 8/10. The bottom line is: " Jackie offers a seductive glimpse into the private world of a beloved American public figure - and a compelling acting performance by Natalie Portman, too." The film received an 81 percent rating on Metacritic , based on 52 reviews .

German-speaking critics were divided about the film after the premiere in Venice. Dominik Kamalzadeh ( Der Standard ) summarized Jackie as a film "that tells of a woman who conscientiously plays her role as first lady right up to the last performance and the chaos behind it". He pointed to the "unusual shape" from "Ellipses and Jumps" and rated Natalie Portman's portrayal as impressive. Andreas Kilb ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) found that Portman looked "eerily similar" to the real Jackie Kennedy. The film depicts the historical truth “with ease”, but the film “does not show the moment” in which Jackie Kennedy decides to reinvent himself “as the most famous widow of her time”. According to Kilb, the explanations of the film ("vanity, sadness, death longing, defiance") are not convincing. Hanns-Georg Rodek ( Die Welt ) described Pablo Larraín as the most beautiful “hope of South American cinema”, but Jackie was “ultimately just a new piece of the puzzle in the never-ending Kennedy hagiography ”. "Larrain does everything to counter the tabloid cliché with a personality, but he remains too conventional for that, Natalie Portman walks too stiffly through the empty rooms of the White House, her surroundings appear to be paper," says Rodek. Portman's portrayal was also criticized by Aliki Nassoufis ( dpa ): You could see “[...] that she is acting. Her gestures seem fake, the accent intentional. ”Larraín, on the other hand, works“ more nuanced ”, he shows the president's widow as“ [...] a calculating woman who wants to get her way and is afraid of becoming meaningless ”.

As of January 22, 2017, the film has grossed estimated $ 11.2 million at box office sales in the United States and Canada. A total of 135,904 people in Germany saw the film in cinemas.

Awards

Jackie: The First Lady won 30 film awards through January 2017 and was nominated for more than 100 more. A selection of the awards won so far:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Jackie: The First Lady . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Jackie: The First Lady . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ "First look at" Jackie "" , SPON November 28, 2016
  4. ↑ Profile ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Toronto International Film Festival (accessed September 8, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tiff.net
  5. ↑ Buss, Esther: Jackie . In: film-dienst 2/2017 (accessed via munzinger.de).
  6. ↑ Jackie - The First Lady . Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  7. ↑ American National Biography Online: "Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy" adS anb.org. Accessed January 23, 2017.
  8. ↑ Rachel Weisz plays Kennedy's wife Jackie O. In: Die Welt Kompakt , April 15, 2010, No. 72, p. 10.
  9. ↑ sda : Rachel Weisz and Katie Holmes both play Jackie Kennedy . May 12, 2010, 5:09 PM CET (accessed via Nexis press database ).
  10. ↑ Fleming junior, Mike: Natalie Portman Courted To Play Jackie Kennedy In Fox Searchlight Drama at deadline.com, September 28, 2012 (accessed September 9, 2016).
  11. ↑ sda: Natalie Portman is supposed to play Jackie Kennedy . May 15, 2015, 11:38 AM CET (accessed from the Nexis press database ).
  12. ↑ Venice Film Festival: “Jackie” with Natalie Portman celebrated at euronews.com, September 8, 2016 (accessed September 8, 2016).
  13. ↑ a b Nassoufis, Aliki (AP): bravos: Natalie Portman as "Jackie" in Venice . September 7, 2016 4:50 PM GMT (accessed via Nexis press database ).
  14. ↑ Jackie: The First Lady at Rotten Tomatoes (English)Template: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  15. ^ Profile at metacritic.com (accessed January 23, 2017).
  16. ↑ Kamalzadeh, Dominik: Jellyfish Dances and First Ladies . In: Der Standard , September 8, 2016, p. 24.
  17. ↑ Kilb, Andreas: The soul doesn't fit into any universe . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 8, 2016, No. 210, p. 9.
  18. ↑ Rodek, Hanns-Georg: The half-naked and the dead . In: Die Welt , September 8, 2016, No. 211, p. 22.
  19. ↑ Profile at boxofficemojo.com (accessed on January 23, 2017).
  20. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2017 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  21. ^ IMDb profile (accessed on January 22, 2017).