French actress Catherine Frot gives a touching, masterful performance as the title character in director Xavier Giannoli’s tragicomic Marguerite. The lavish 1920s costume film centers on a wealthy baroness who loves music and fancies herself an opera singer. The problem is that she cannot sing and seems unable to hear her own off-key screeching. With her great wealth, generous support of causes and social position, no one tells her the truth.
Marguerite is a fictional film but the title character was inspired by real person, Florence Foster Jenkins, an American heiress famous for her awful singing and delusional belief in her talents who gave invitation-only concerts in elaborate costumes, which audiences viewed with a “so bad its good” appreciation. A biopic about Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and directed by Stephen Frears, is due out later this year.
Giannoli and co-writer Marcia Romano move their story to 1921 France – the Roaring Twenties.
Marguerite is a fictional film but the title character was inspired by real person, Florence Foster Jenkins, an American heiress famous for her awful singing and delusional belief in her talents who gave invitation-only concerts in elaborate costumes, which audiences viewed with a “so bad its good” appreciation. A biopic about Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and directed by Stephen Frears, is due out later this year.
Giannoli and co-writer Marcia Romano move their story to 1921 France – the Roaring Twenties.
- 3/25/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Title: Marguerite Director: Xavier Giannoli Starring: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret, Denis Mpunga, Sylvain Dieuaide, Aubert Fenoy, Sophia Leboutte, Théo Cholbi. The world has always been populated by talentless megalomaniacs. Usually most of these are attracted by the razzle dazzle of success, but very seldom there is a true passion for the arts that motivates them. This is not the case of Marguerite Dumont, a Baroness who lives for music and dreams of becoming an opera singer, but is totally tone-deaf. French director Xavier Giannoli shapes, with humor and sensitivity, the character of Marguerite into an utterly bighearted naive woman, who is led to believe she can [ Read More ]
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- 9/5/2015
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
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