Not another Camelot

Jackie, revisited

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…