As I mentioned earlier this month, if an incredibly niche
idea is worth making into a movie, might as well make it two. After sitting
through Florence Foster Jenkins, and genuinely being quite impressed with the
thing, discovering another film based on the same extraordinary person was
rather intriguing. Rather than sticking to the real-life events of the tuneless
songbird, this French outing instead touts to be inspired by those events and
going in its own narrative direction. So, without automatically seeing fault in
diverting from actual events (or it very well could be accurate and I wouldn’t
be able to tell the difference), how does this altered take on the idea turn
out?
