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FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (UK 2016) ***
Directed by Stephen Frears
Starring: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg
Review by Gilbert Seah
As one magazine writer aptly put: Meryl Streep has added one more talent to her curriculum vitae – the ability to sing flat.
Based on true events, the film is based on the character Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep), an heiress and socialite in New York who owns a music club, the Verdi. She, though ill in health, lives for music, aspiring to become an opera singer with the help of her husband St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) and her pianist Cosmé McMoon (Simon Helberg). Florence’s first words in the film: “Music is my life!” But the truth is that unknown to her, she has generally poor singing ability.
It is no doubt that a large…
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