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Film maker Pablo Larrain uses the tragedy to reveal Jackie’s complexities.He reconstructs her different faces : the innocent debutante, the fashion icon, the wife, the mother,the artful White House decorator, and the widow behind her husband’s legacy.

“While there are many things that we know that we produced from different sources.But there are a lot of things that we don’t know and we created them. This is why this is a movie, it is fiction, it is not a documentary.”

Poetic license aside, Jackie script writer Noah Oppenheim told VOA that his penned Jackie Kennedy’s different personas based on archival material and his own memories of her.

“I’ve been fascinated by Jackie Kennedy my whole life.My mother was a big admirer of her.She saved all the newspapers and magazines.I would look through them when I was a little kid and I am a student of politics and American history and I have always admired her.”

“Mr.Flenddy, would you mind getting a message to all the funeral guests when they land?”

“Of course.”

“Inform them that I will walk with Jack tomorrow.”

Academy award-winning Natalie Portman offers a tour de force performance as the enigmatic First Lady.

“You obviously have to achieve first the way they talk, the way they move, the way they look,just to get people to believe you enough to get into the movie. And then, of course, emotionally, it’s such an extreme experience that she went through,it’s almost impossible to relate to because, you know, you have grief in your life, you have tragedy,but this is such an epic scale and such a worldwide stage that, you know,she is really probably the only person in history who’s had this kind of experience,so, to really sort of try and get into that mindset was very extreme.”

“I will not sneak out the back door.I will go out the usual way we all will.”

Pablo Larrain mixes Jackie’s harrowing moments with flashbacks of happier days during the two years of her husband’s presidency.

“The movie like, what it exactly shows, like slices of memory, pieces of ideas;we all remember things about emotional things more than the real facts and these memories in the film are emotional memories.Not all of them make sense, not all of them are very connected and that is why it feels real.”

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Jackie feels more like a psychological drama than a biopic. Jackie’s flashbacks of Camelot -- an idealized representation of President John F. Kennedy’s administration --reveal happier moments but also hint at a darker side of the couple’s union where infidelity and political pressures were vanished by style,documents and young ambition.

Penelope Poulou, VOA news, Washington.