Jackie Kennedy is one of our most famous first ladies, and in this movie writer Noah Oppenheim tells the story of how Jackie dealt with dealing the weeks after her husband’s assassination. The story is told through an interview and flashbacks of Jackie’s time in the white house.

While little time is actually spent on the shooting of John F. Kennedy the effects are felt through the whole movie. Director Pablo Larrain produces a very tasteful movie on a very tragic subject. Larrain chooses to focus more on the repercussions of JFK’s death rather than anything else, so that when he chooses to show you it the scenes are allowed their full dramatic effect.

Natalie Portman is really what sets this movie apart. Portman not only changed her voice for this role she succesfull portrayed not only a first lady but a wife in mourning. You see the struggles that she goes through in the leading up to the end of the movie. From dancing alone, struggling to comfort her children, and even struggling to stay sober through it all – Portman does it all with ease.

The music also sets this movie apart. All the songs are played at the right time with just the amount of build to give the right emotion for each scene. In Portman’s darkest times the use of haunting instruments builds up the intenseness of her refusing to take off the famous pink outfit she wears in Dallas TX.

While everything in the movie is not historically accurate the suburb acting and storyline makes your forget all that and draws you into the pain and tragedy the nation felt after these events and the tragic world of 1963.