Marguerite, inspired by real events, tells the story of a baroness whose dream was to be an opera singer. Due her social status, she organizes benefit concerts in which she sings, the conflict is that no one dares to tell her that she lacks talent.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 14, 2024

Inventively comedic, its droll moments of melodrama reflect bleak social commentary as well as a successfully mocking character portrait, Marguerite is Giannoli's strongest title to date.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 30, 2020

Would be worth watching if only for the performance of Frot.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 15, 2020

What this film is is a good period drama about people living their lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2020

The amazing accomplishment of Catherine Frot's performance is that we both laugh at and pity Marguerite, and regard her celebrity as both a travesty and a tragedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 12, 2019

This is a poignant, simultaneously jubilant and deeply sad championing of singing like nobody's listening.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2019

Frot is Marguerite, and Marguerite is Frot - her central rendition is the extraordinary performance of a lifetime, capturing the beauty and innocence behind the voice of a peacock.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2019

A strong contender in the upcoming awards season, Marguerite is a gem of a film: intelligent, precisely observed and unforgettable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 10, 2018

Catherine Frot's performance as the titular title character is notable and layered, and the film provides a wonderful supporting cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2018

What keeps this together is the glowing, sensitive performance from Catherine Frot (The Page Turner), who plays the deluded singer with an earnest grace.

| Aug 29, 2018

It is Giannoli and Frot's shared accomplishment that we come to feel for this deluded woman, who loves music and her husband with a passion that is returned by neither.

| Oct 24, 2017

Catherine Frot is heartbreakingly wonderful as Marguerite Dumont, whose love of opera is passionate and sincere and yet whose talent for it is close to zero.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 24, 2017

Marguerite offers pathos bathed in luxury and delusion with a hint of compassion.

| Aug 29, 2017

[Catherine Frot's] so charismatic-and so brimming with commendable, borderline pathological self-regard-that this imaginary person made me want to retract every real, deservedly bad review I've ever written.

| Aug 22, 2017

An elegant film that always maintains the pathetic case of Margarita's vocation in the thin line that separates the corrosive mood of tenderness as a strong feeling. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 23, 2017

Because of Mpunga and Frot, Marguerite is a pleasant and emotive experience.

| Jan 3, 2017

By the end, [Marguerite will] have you crying like Pagliacci.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2016

It's handsomely turned out in its monochrome palette, and Marguerite's big numbers remain reliably amusing, Frot mangling her standards like a sham-dram Liza or Barbra while Marcon tersely clutches his hunting rifle in the wings.

| Dec 28, 2016

As Dumont, Catherine Frot grasps the character's tragic essence... Whether the director fully supports Frot's empathy, however, is more difficult to assess.

| Nov 29, 2016

Marguerite's unspeakable voice is counterpointed by cinematographer Glynn Speeckaert's exquisitely composed tableaux. And the denouement yields more than one surprise.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2016