by
Julien Faddoul
Jackie ***
An account of
the days of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of John F.
Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
Staggering,
emotionally incalculable portrait of a historical figure despite the script’s
singular focus on grief. It characterizes its principal depiction as a woman
who is struggling to secure someone else’s place in history while the clock is
ticking, a woman having to deal with being a part of a very public murder and a
woman who, for what would be the worst week of her life, has complete
authority of all the men around her. It is a superb mélange of anguish, vanity
and loss of power, anchored by an equally superb and rather risky central
performance.
d – Pablo
Larrain
w – Noah
Oppenheim
ph –
Stéphane Fontaine
pd – Jean Rabasse
m – Mica Levi
ed – Sebastián Sepúlveda
cos – Madeline Fontaine
p – Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin, Ari
Handel, Juan de Dios Larraín, Mickey Liddell
Cast: Natalie
Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta
Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Beth Grant, Caspar
Phillipson
A United
Kingdom
Prince Seretse
Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman
from London in the late 1940s.
Shallow,
saccharine biographical romantic drama that reduces its central dispute to what
feels like episodes of polite quarrels between the couple and the plastic representatives
who antagonized their union.
d – Amma Asante
w – Guy Hibbert
ph – Sam McCurdy
pd – Simon Bowles
m – Patrick
Doyle
ed – Jonathan
Amos, Jon Gregory
cos – Jenny
Beavan, Anushia Nieradzik
p – Brunson Green, Peter Heslop, Charlie Mason,
Rick McCallum, Justin Moore-Lewy, David Oyelowo
Cast: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport,
Tom Felton, Terry Pheto, Laura Carmichael, Charlotte Hope
Christine *
The story of
Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and
professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career, who famously shot
herself in the head during a report on live television in Sarasota, Florida.
A film with
an extremely elusive point – at least one that never truly reveals itself.
Chubbuck’s story is legendary but it remains unclear why it is a story the
cinema needs, since the legend only developed from its key tragic moment; a
moment which silences all and allows for no further illumination. In any event,
the filmmakers try their best at a futile endeavor, with a fiercely committed
and intense performance from Hall.
d – Antonio Campos
w – Craig
Shilowich
ph – Joe Anderson
pd – Scott Kuzio
m – Danny
Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
ed – Sofía
Subercaseaux
cos – Emma
Potter
p – Melody C. Roscher, Craig Shilowich
Cast: Rebecca
Hall, Michael C. Hall, Maria
Dizzia, Tracy Letts, J. Smith-Cameron, Kim Shaw, Timothy Simons, John Cullum
Kate
Plays Christine ***
Follows actress
Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a
Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate
investigates Chubbuck’s story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes
increasingly obsessed with her subject.
An ingenious
solution to the thematic problem that filming this story imposes. Chubbuck,
however misguided she was, attempted to call attention to the media’s growing
obsession with blood and guts. Greene and Sheil seamlessly weave the facts with
the fantasy and administer a reflective view of how such events become opportunistic
when put in front of a camera. It is also an outstanding rendering of how an actor
prepares for a role.
wd – Robert Greene
ph – Sean Price Williams
pd – John Dickson
m – Keegan
DeWitt
ed – Robert Greene
cos – Hannah
Kittell
p – Susan Bedusa, Douglas Tirola
Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil
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