Judy (2019)

To be honest, I don't really like Hollywood biopic movies about stars. In my opinion, in most cases, actors, directors, and screenwriters create caricature rather than nostalgic images. The actors snatch out some facial and gestural features and hyperbolize them to a farce, the screenwriters collect all the garbage from tabloid newspapers, and the directors try to please the festival jury. Oh, how Monroe, Mercury, Presley got hurt... And I was sure that "Judy" was the same. Moreover, after watching the teasers/ trailers, I only strengthened in this thought. It seemed to me that Zellweger was being too clownish, and the plot was again reduced to shaking up underwear...

And I probably would never have watched it if I hadn't somehow heard Zellweger sing in this movie. Spoiler alert - awesome. I went to watch the whole thing and... I didn't regret it.

I know that the Garland children called the film a lampoon in absentia, without looking at it, but in fact it is visible. how the filmmakers tried to treat Garland as carefully as possible, in a sense, to declare their love for her, how Zellweger sometimes disappears into the role when he is not very fond of tracing facial expressions and gestures, how good the supporting actors are (except for a couple of gays, a disgusting cliche, just booh). Sometimes the script was perceived as somehow premature, not fully suffered, and sometimes it pierced into the very heart. But because of this unevenness, it was sometimes perceived a little forced, unconvincing. But for the general, I do not know, it is fashionable to say vibe now, Fleur, but you forgive it.