Jackie hauls around three stuffed dummies that are labeled Jack, Ari (her second husband, Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis), and Bobby (Robert Kennedy, also assassinated.) Bobby apparently represents the rest of the Kennedy family mythology, all part of her purgatorial baggage.

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The second, purgatorial part is the meat of the movie, following Godard himself around a shrouded Sarajevo, where he lectures on subjects dear to him including the vision of Bernadette, no less and where a young Israeli woman (played by Sarah Adler) with a story to tell tracks down the French ambassador.

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