What Jackie Knew
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What Jackie Knew
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Review by Shelley Cameron
for Reel Movie Critic
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HH ½
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Cast
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Jackie Kennedy Onasis
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Directed by Patrick Jeudy. Documentary. Not Rated. 55 minutes.
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Private lives of the rich and famous
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This thin speculative documentary about the thoughts, motives and emotions of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onasis, zeros in on her reasons for marrying Jack and how she felt about his behavior during their years together, particularly his other women. Without any supporting evidence, concrete or otherwise, the voice-over narration details Jackie reactions and thoughts to rumored liaisons with Marilyn Monroe, and her feelings when she lost a newborn child, Patrick Kennedy, after just four days. The film hypothesizes, from circumstantial evidence, such as the timing of her trips without JFK, as to how she was dealing with Jack's womanizing and his physical problems. Since it seems like the public appetite for morsels from the private lives of this American royalty seems limitless, I have no doubt "What Jackie Knew" will find an audience. Interesting for the tidbits of info I do not recall hearing before, such as that Jackie did not consider herself a Democrat, and had never voted until the election day she publicly went to the polls to vote for her husband.
Aside from some little seen footage of private times at Hyannis Port and Jackie caught smoking on the family sail boat, what the film confirms is that she was always very protective of her privacy. She consistently presented a carefully orchestrated image to the world, and was unlikely to go on record to anyone about her private thoughts. Still, the speculation seems a not implausible summary of what she might have known.
