Chilean director Pablo Larraín's English language debut is a searing and intimate portrait of Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) in the events leading up to and following the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy.

The events covered in the film (the fateful day in Dallas, her return to the White House, arrangements for the funeral, and her time spent accompanying the coffin to Arlington Cemetery) offer a moving tale of a grieving woman, wife and mother and she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of 'Camelot' that they created and loved so well.

With a stellar supporting cast (including Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig and John Hurt) and a bravado turn by a never-better Portman, Larraín has created a near-experimental look at loss and legacy: what could have been a tear-soaked standard biopic is instead bracingly, gloriously his own, and it's all the better for it.

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