Florence Foster Jenkins
- warm
- brisk
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Our read · Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · biopic entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Florence Foster Jenkins
What watching it is actually like.
“You want tender comedy about delusion, devotion, and a famously awful voice.”
Skip it tonight — Secondhand embarrassment from bad singing will ruin your whole evening.
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