Thursday, May 19, 2016

Film Review - Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

Florence Foster Jenkins is the true story of Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) a New York Socialite in the 1940s who decides to go back onto the Opera stage with the help of her husband (Hugh Grant) and a young Pianist but Florence will find it difficult to stage a successful singing career.

I had fun watching this film and a lot of that I think is due to Streep's performance in the title role, she looks like she's actually having fun again in a film instead of just doing an OTT voice and mannerisms like she has done in some of her more recent roles, Grant is his usual charming self and he has a nice chemistry with Streep and I LOVED seeing Rebecca Ferguson again after she made a very strong impression in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation last year, I can't wait to see her again in a film hopefully that will be soon.

And so that was Florence Foster Jenkins, a good fun time at the cinema with nice humour and performances, 2 and a half out of 5.

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