"Florence Foster Jenkins". What a movie!
I'm sure I'm the last one to see it. Absolutely bril!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)onlyadream
(2,166 posts)Adding it to my list. Btw, I never heard of it.
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SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Absolutely horrible and wonderful at the same time.
According to the youtube comments, Streep sang live! She did an amazing job of singing badly!!
Edit: forgot the link:
Binders Keepers
(369 posts)Everybody around her convincing her she's great, despite her massive insecurities.
bif
(22,708 posts)YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT!
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)I also thought that the movie was brilliant!
catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)There is a French version of this story, on Netflix, called Marguerite. I have not seen the Streep version but this one was very good. Not played for laughs, in fact kind of bittersweet. It does have subtitles so if you don't like them this isn't for you.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)Obviously, not all elements of the movie are true, but the movie really captures the story of her life, imo.