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Weekend Film Reviews

Florence Foster Jenkins

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern Aug. 12, 2016 Entertainment
It's not exactly breaking news, but Meryl Streep is remarkable, and her latest showcase is Florence Foster Jenkins.

Florence Foster Jenkins, a biopic set in New York in the 1940's, is about the self-invented opera diva whose hideous voice own her a place on the honor roll of American eccentrics.

By coincidence, another film on the same subject played here earlier this year -- Xavier Giannoli's French-language Marguerite, which was set in 1920's Paris.

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