The Dreadnought

The Dreadnought

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The Dreadnought
The Dreadnought
Not another Camelot
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Not another Camelot

Jackie, revisited

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James Robins
Sep 09, 2022
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NEVER BEFORE HAS A camera been pushed so tight to the face of royalty than when, in Pablo Larraín’s hypnotic and vertiginous film Jackie, we are caught spying on the unadorned gasps of a recent widow’s grief.

Quivering in extreme close-up, Jackie Kennedy’s broad and delicate features are flattened against a backlit mirror, hot liquid shock and fast-flowi…

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