Florence Foster Jenkins, the story of a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice, is a movie I found to be just okay.

Starring Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, ‘acting queen’ Meryl Streep and directed by Stephen Frears, I enjoyed the little moments of humour and I appreciated the film as a sweet story of one man’s complicated love for his wife and friend, particularly the lengths he and a number of her friends went to to ‘take care of her’.

It goes without saying that Streep performed well as Jenkins. Helberg and Grant were good, too.

Ordinarily, I personally can’t imagine myself gladly helping to delude a mentally well, yet talentless person I care about into thinking that they were actually talented. The good news is that watching Florence Foster Jenkins has ensured that I’d take a little more time to consider it. Even though it all reeks heavily of the most cringeworthy moments in talent shows such as X-Factor and American Idol.

How would you handle such a predicament if you were a friend of Florence?

As always, watch it if you’re curious enough.

Happy Film loving,

G

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