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Sep 28, 2016
This 2015 French 'adaptation' of Florence Foster Jenkins' life and career predated Stephen Frears' film with Meryl Streep as FFJ. The invented plot elements make this film richer and more fun to watch: a Black butler-photographer who posed his mistress in her dream-roles, a clairvoyant bearded lady, a mean cross dressing voice coach who was a past-his-prime tenor, opium den, screeching peacock, and a philandering husband.... Spoiler alert: set in 1920, when recording was rare and expensive, the heroine was SHOCKED to hear her own voice and died like a proper diva on stage.