Jacqueline (Argentine)

Name: Jacqueline (Argentine)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Released: October 17, 2017
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Alfredo Narciso, Amr El-Bayoumi, Bert Haelvoet, Enrique Dura, Eve Austin

2017

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Film1 Sundance Channel | Release Date (Streaming): October 17, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Alfredo Narciso, Amr El-Bayoumi, Bert Haelvoet, Enrique Dura, Eve Austin, James Benson, Martin Anderson, Richard Kind, Sasha Dominy, Wyatt Cenac

Summary: A filmmaker (Wyatt Cenac) receives a series of panicked emails and phone calls from a young French woman named Jacqueline Dumont (Camille Rutherford). She invites him to Argentina to document her self-imposed political exile after supposedly leaking US government secrets detailing a planned assassination. Jacqueline expects dramatic falloutA filmmaker (Wyatt Cenac) receives a series of panicked emails and phone calls from a young French woman named Jacqueline Dumont (Camille Rutherford). She invites him to Argentina to document her self-imposed political exile after supposedly leaking US government secrets detailing a planned assassination. Jacqueline expects dramatic fallout and wants the filmmaker there to capture it all on camera. But upon arriving at the remote holistic center where Jacqueline is hiding out, the filmmaker and his two interns begin to suspect that her story might be exaggerated (or completely made up). The film they eventually make is the one we watch – more of an absurd comedy than the political thriller they bargained for.… Expand

Director: Bernardo Britto

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Mar 16, 2024

As undercooked as ‘Jacqueline’ can be, the movie oddly comes to life at the end with its themes of pointlessness and God laughing at your plans finally coming full circle. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Mar 16, 2024

Part of the problem of Jacqueline (Argentine) is that it wants to be a film of many layers but Britto doesn’t have the know-how to keep each layer legible separately, with the final result feeling messy and impenetrable rather than admirably complex and, well, layered Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Mar 16, 2024

Gets points for originality but quickly succumbs to terminal self-amusement. Read full review

The Guardian Jordan Hoffman

Mar 16, 2024

Jacqueline (Argentine) isn’t just a bad movie – there are plenty of those. It’s infuriating. Read full review

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