Oh, the Power of Music. Most of us love it. It can influence your mood. A slow, ominous or haunting melody to a fast and exciting tribute that can get your heart pumping! There is no denying music. Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) is a woman who love music and show business. She is a wealthy heiress of a fortune let to her by her father. She is a socialite and she lives to entertain! It is her joy and her happiness. Problem. She's really, really, really bad at it. Her charming and devoted husband (Hugh Grant) bribes news papers and spends a fortune trying to protect his wife's delusional dream. She just wants to act and sing and spread her joy. They hire a young man (Simon Helberg) to give Florence Voice lessons. He is horrified but the phenomenal money he is offered is too hard to resist although he leaves the first lesson with Florence laughing because his pupil is just such an awful singer.
St. Clair Bayfield clearly loves and is devoted to his wife, but because she has cephalus they cannot be intimate so he has his honey on the side. I verge between admiring the man and thinking he's a slimy dog.
While he's away on one of his excursions Florence arranges to put on a concert for the soldiers fighting in the war. She books Carnegie Hall and her performance there has become legendary, It is based on a true story.
I thoroughly enjoyed this move. I had the same reaction I'm sure the people that witnessed the real Florence Foster Jenkins felt... I was embarassed for her, mortified by her, and mesmerized by her. She was truly such a bad, off key, loud, horrific singer that it should be illegal... and yet she had the courage and the fortitude to follow her dreams. She was an inspiration!
The IMDB gave this move a 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes 87% critic rating and 77% audience ratings
My rating: Watch it!
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