It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. She sings wholeheartedly, but terribly out of tune. Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audie...
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Xavier Giannoli's MARGUERITE is a Gallo-period drama borrows the inspiration from the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, and grafts it onto a rich French woman Marguerite Dumont (Frot) in the Golden twenties, whose inferior singing ability doesn't stop her from...
★★★★★
Catherine Frot is such an excellent actress that one forgets how good everyone around her is too in this film. The story has been hashed to death in the reviews, but suffice to say wonderful story, beautiful surroundings, fabulous casting and acting, and the o...
★★★★★
The audience is stone, my dear lady aside. Paris, the twenties. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy, vivacious woman, a music and opera enthusiast. For years, she has regularly sung for her circle of friends. A perfect, meticulously crafted scenario, a flawless sto...
★★★★★
This comedy of manners was masterfully done. For a story about a woman who was an atrocious singer but didn't know it and performed publicly, it was delightfully light-handed. Catherine Frot was exceptional as Marguerite. She didn't portray the character as a...
★★★★★
Biographical films can be really good and intriguing when done well, and there are a number of great ones out there as well as a few disappointing ones.
There are better biopics overall than 'Marguerite', and there is a preference for 2016's 'Florence Foster...
