The film embodies the story of what is happening in the 1940s, as Florence Foster Jenkins in New York aspires to be famous despite what is happening. Florence has a music club and works for it, as it becomes a singer of opera, although there is a sound of spoils. During this period, Florence faced various challenges, but her husband might support her project and the true Florence story could become a historical event.
A comic lark that packs a satisfying emotional wallop and continues the balls-to-the-wall career victory lap Meryl Streep has been on since turning 60 years old seven years ago ...
Streep, of course, fills her character with emotion, humanity and need, but director Stephen Frears and writer Nicholas Martin haven't decided whether their movie is slapstick or tragedy.
[Frears] elicits a remarkably tender and mature performance from Hugh Grant as St. Clair Bayfield, the two-bit Shakespearean actor who became Jenkins's longtime companion and musical enabler.
It would be so easy to make Florence the butt of the joke, the victim of an elaborate prank perpetrated by a slice of New York society feeding her delusions, but her story borders on tragedy...
