Jackie (2016) – Natalie Portman earned an Oscar nomination playing American First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the week following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This is not the conspiracy drama of Oliver Stone’s JFK, nor is it a sentimental spectacle of a country mourning the death of an inspirational President. This is an […]
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Pablo Larraín’s ‘Neruda’ on Netflix
Pablo Larraín delved into the culture of Pinochet’s Chile in Tony Manero and No, and he reaches back farther to continue his exploration of Chile’s troubled past with Neruda (Chile, 2016). It’s ostensibly about Pablo Neruda, the revered poet, senator, and face of Chile’s Communist Party in the 1940s, and his flight underground and into […]