Small scale films for big scale personas.

This film sounds like Diana or Grace of Monaco. Seams like recently most filmmakers opted on making smaller scale biopics, concentrating on a specific event or relationship rather than larger portions of their life. While that sounds like perhaps more focused, it doesn't turn out to be that way.

The truth is, if you make is 'big' biopic, spanning through decades and delivering many events, it needs to be good to be appealing. But, a smaller scale film needs to be near perfect to be as interesting.

Simply, life-spanning or big event based films are faster paced and there is a lot to follow. Even if a subplot ain't that interesting, there will be another one soon and it's less likely all will be a bore. When you focus solely on one small period there is little room for subplots. You are stuck with one thing, and if it fails, everything fails.

Moreover, these kinds of biopics rarely pick an exciting event as it's focus, they mostly base on the inner state and personality of a person portrayed. They are, if we are being bit sarcastic, made to give an A-list actor a chance of winning an Oscar and their make-up artists as well, considering how much effort is made into them looking alike the actual people they are playing.

Judging by Diana and GoM, not the same effort is put into constructing the interesting story and development of characters. Filmmakers never intend to make a focus of the events or try and fail. While it's good to see an A-lister looking and talking like a historical figure, it grows old by 10 minutes. People need actual story.

If not, the actor needs to be PERFECT, not good, not even great, but effing breathtaking to make us watch a basically plotless photoshoot for 2 hours.

Not saying Jackie is that kind of film, since I obviously didn't see it, but there are some indications regarding looks, timing and plot.