I'm just back from viewing the film 'Florence Foster Jenkins' starring Meryl Streep. Very, very entertaining. A quite amazing story too.
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Looking forward to seeing it - but a curious coincidence that it has appeared around the same time as the French film Marguerite. Honestly - you wait years for a film about FFJ, when two turn up at once!
(The subject was one that Victoria Wood was thinking of dramatizing some years ago. She opted for the Joyce Hatto and Manchester Children's choir projects first - and may have had licence problems with these two films appearing.)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT] -
But Marguerite is about a different real person, isn't it?
If I want to see only one of them, which should it be?Comment
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"set in 1920s France but inspired by Foster Jenkins", acc. to The Times.
Also "[Terry] Davies [who directed the tableaux and singing] is particularly proud that what we hear in the cinema was recorded live. Where Catherine Frot mimes touchingly in Marguerite, Streep hoots, swoops, barks and squeaks in situ....Only once do we hear her sing naturally, in Ernest Charles's sentimental encore When I have sung my songs"
...if that helps
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No, I don't think so - everything I've heard about it refers to it being "based on the life" of FFJ.Originally posted by jean View Post
The one you want to see?If I want to see only one of them, which should it be?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Perhaps not a different person - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_%28film%29Originally posted by jean View Post
I've not seen either (yet) so can't comment on which you should see.Comment
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When I read the cast list for Marguerite the name of the lead character rang a bell (several bells - a veritable peal) - Margaret Dumont was a regular in Marx Brothers films. See this (from Wikipedia) -
"Margaret Dumont (October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965) was an American stage and film actress. She is best remembered as the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films. Groucho Marx called her "practically the fifth Marx brother." ... Dumont trained as an operatic singer and actress in her teens, and began performing on stage in both the U.S. and in Europe, at first under the name Daisy Dumont and later as Margaret (or Marguerite) Dumont. Her theatrical debut was in Beauty and the Beast at the Chestnut Theater in Philadelphia, and in August 1902, two months before her 20th birthday, she appeared as a singer/comedian in a vaudeville act in Atlantic City. The dark-haired soubrette, described by a theater reviewer as a "statuesque beauty", attracted notice later that decade for her vocal and comedic talents in The Girl Behind the Counter (1908), The Belle of Brittany (1909), and The Summer Widower (1910)."
Surely no coincidence?Comment
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Meryl Streep was a pupil in New York of Estelle Liebling, who was in turn a pupil in Paris of Mathilde Marchesi.
That's why she's never been shy about singing in films.Comment
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Florence Foster Jenkins film with M. Streep
Anyone seen or going to go to see? News/views please!Comment
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Hiya Prommer,Originally posted by Prommer View Post
I have already started a thread under the title 'Florence Foster Jenkins - film' .Comment
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Or of course the other one where Florence is called "Marguerite" in a French version of the same story ...
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Not long back from early evening screening (and Prezzo eats afterwards).
Much enjoyed: a real laugh out loud movie.Comment
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I quite fancy this movie but, alas, since digital 'projection' took ahold I'm less inclined to visit an emporium which is basically a big tv with a grossly overpriced sweetie shop! I'll wait until it comes out on DVD.
Bring back 35mm!Comment
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