Marguerite (film)

Marguerite
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Directed by	Xavier Giannoli
Produced by	Artemio Benki Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonnier
Written by	Xavier Giannoli Marcia Romano
Starring	Catherine Frot
Music by	Ronan Maillard
Cinematography	Glynn Speeckaert
Edited by	Cyril Nakache
Production companies	La Banque Postale 8 Canal+ CNC Eurimages Fidélité Films France 3 Cinéma France Télévisions Scope Pictures Sirena Film
Distributed by	Memento Films Distribution (France) ArtCam (Czech Republic)
Release date	4 September 2015 (2015-09-04) (Venice) 16 September 2015 (2015-09-16) (France) 24 September 2015 (2015-09-24) (Czech Republic)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	France Czech Republic Belgium
Language	French
Box office	$8.5 million

Marguerite is a French/Czech/Belgian 2015 comedy and drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli and written by Giannoli and Marcia Romano, loosely inspired by the life of Florence Foster Jenkins. Set in the Golden Twenties, the film stars Catherine Frot as a socialite and aspiring opera singer who believes she has a beautiful voice. The film is an international co-production among France, the Czech Republic, and Belgium.Marguerite received eleven nominations at the 41st César Awards, winning for Best Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, and Best Production Design.

The film was shot in Prague from mid-September to early December 2014.

Marguerite was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.

The film was well received by the critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 95%, based on 92 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Touching, funny, and thoughtful, Marguerite honors its real-life inspiration with a well-acted and ultimately inspirational look at the nature of art and the value of a dream." On Metacritic the film has a score of 76 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Screendaily described the film as "original, funny and touching". Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "offers up an amusingly entertaining portrait of fortune, infamy and severe melodic dysfunction".Cineuropa gave the film a positive review, and said that the director "has brought together the best of his sensitivity and attraction to characters that are passionate and obsessive to the extreme, to paint the portrait of an unusual woman, who Catherine Frot plays with stunning dramatic and comical genius".