By Emilio Frenk
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda, Stanley Townsend, Allan Corduner, Christian McKay and David Haig.
Rating: Excellent.
Stephen Frears, Director of movies like “Dangerous Liaisons, “The Queen” and “Philomena” comes back wtih a sweet and touching movie “Florence Foster Jenkins”.
Based on true events the movie centers on Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) a New York Heiress who witnesses with her husband St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) a stage actor an opera concert making Madame Jenkins her desire to become an opera singer.
Eventually she takes singing lessons and her voice is very poor but still she is determined to make a career in opera. She hires Cosmé McMoon (Simon Helberg) a New York Pianist who is willing to help her to achieve her main goal to sing in the prestigious “Carnegie Hall”.
Not only Madame Jenkins, St. Clair and Cosmé form a working collaboration, but they both form a bond that eventually will lead to great things and of course a huge career in music.
Stephen Frears in all the movies that he has made shows the most human and sensitive side of human beings and here´s is not the exeption. Meryl Streep is always a guarantee and she delivers one of the most incredible and touching performances in “Florence Foster Jenkins”.
Simon Helberg, who´s well know for portraying Howard Wolowitz in the comedy show “The Bing Bang Theory” gives one of the best performances I´ve seen of his career and I think he can score a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor category in next year´s awards ceremony.
The screenplay by Nicholas Martin is written in the most precise detail and in movies that involve real life events the length is factor since sometimes they have the tendency to overexplain but Martin was very smart on writing a movie that only showed the most important events of Jenkin´s life.
The movies of Stephen Frears are always a delight wathching them in the big screen and if you have not seen any of his movies I encourage you to watch them.
it´s always a delight seeing Meryl Streep perform and gives another remarkable performance and most likely she will score her 20th Academy Award Nomination of her career for this wonderful performance and it wouldn't be a surprise if she wins again.
“Florence Foster Jenkins” is funny, touching and moving. I can guarantee that the people will remember it for decades.
This is one of the best movies of this year and I really enjoyed it.