Review of Marguerite (2015) by Alan W — 10 Apr 2016
A lush movie about a woman and her dream. Catherine Frot portrays the aging, though childlike, Marguerite and her dream with great warmth evoking pathos for the folly. The wealth of this mademoiselle and her fraudulent Opera Club patrons provide a humorous and glamorous vision of M's dream with a background of the plush decors of her France countryside chateau.
The opportunity to sing in public, no matter how low the art, gives the dream a chance of reality and hope. Dipping into the dirty business of the real opera world gives M a new thrill for performance; the dark and decadent world of artistic 1920s Paris excites the (im)propriety of M and the fatiguing laborious love for the 'Art of Making Art' is the stuff that makes dream come true.
As her dream matures, I kept wondering how it was going to evolve in to a Cinderella, happy and triumphant ending. I did not see it coming.
This review of Marguerite (2015) was written by Alan W on 10 Apr 2016.
Marguerite has generally received positive reviews.
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