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JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY ABC, Oct. 14, 8 p.m. E.D.T...
...photographers, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Margaret Bourke-White were as alike as an Instamatic and a Hasselblad. But as subjects in two upcoming movies, both are being portrayed by camera-sly actresses who admire their subjects: Jaclyn Smith, 33, and Candice Bergen, 35. In Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a three-hour ABC-TV movie to be aired in the fall, Smith has doffed her Charlie's Angels halo for the bouffant hair and pillbox hats the 31st First Lady helped popularize. Voice lessons and video tapes of Jackie's White House tours helped Smith tone down her Houston drawl...
Tavernier is utterly unable to reconcile his vision of Bouvier as society's victim and the audience's gut response to these atrocities. His attempt to weasel out of providing firm answers by "prettying up" these murders verges on the immoral. To kill young children is a heinous crime and no amount of earlier abuse can explain it away...
However, one part of the film succeeds brilliantly, mostly through the superb performance of Phillipe Noiret as Rousseau, Bouvier's presiding judge. Despite some heavy handed parallels between the two men such as their shared penchant for sodomy and red heads, Noiret lifts his character out of the prevailing "the straights are just as crazy" mold and gives life to this balding judge who still lives at home with his exquisite, adored Maman. Noiret captures the fierce ambition of Rousseau; he yearns for that Legion of Honor medal with all the intensity of a good schoolboy who wants to please...
...Judge and The Assassin ends with a cinematic non sequitur; a strike breaks out in a never-before-mentioned-factory, Isabelle Huppert, last seen as the sodomized mistress of Rousseau, now appears as an aspiring diva, singing Bouvier's favorite ballad-off-key, and the entire striking mob is bathed in a Hallmark card glow. The police prepare to shoot and the screen goes black as these significant words appear: "in the year that Joseph Bouvier killed twelve children, 16,000 died in the mines of France." Both facts are terrible; is Tavernier suggesting that Bouvier should not have been...