duration: 1 Hour, 58 Minute
2019
Genre: Drama
Average ratings: 7,4 of 10
writer: Tom Edge
Directors: Rupert Goold
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Excellent acting and superb singing can not save this movie from mediocre writing, especially for the first 70 minutes. "I very love this movie, with this movie we know how vicious people back then, how Hard and how difficult Judy Garland life, is very sad, it's suck when people just don't appreciate her, she just want to be happy and a rest, and the ending is almost got me cry, that ending is beautiful, poor Judy.
We want to remember Judy Garland as that vivacious, talented singer on screen singing correctly on key "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." We want to remember the star who could always seem to give a stellar performance, no matter how travailed a life ( Meet Me in St Louis. We want to remember Judy in those so many iconic roles ( A Star is Born" that showed her talent, even in her small performance in "Judgement at Nuremburg."
We do not want to see her in those last cadaverous months before her death in June, 1969 at age 47 by "accidental overdose."
And that is what we get here. Rene Zellweger gives a stunning performance as Judy Garland towards the end of her life. Never mind the fine line between channeling someone and satirizing someone, a line too often crossed. The movie travels back and forth in time from 1968/69 when she is in London for comeback and her days as a child star being groomed by MGM as a leading star. At MGM the child Judy is given pills to wake her up, help her sleep; gain weight, lose weight; keep her going, slow her down. All of this frankly depicted on screen. And in the film, a licentious Louise B. Mayer hinting at the sexual abuse she received from Hollywood big-wigs.
The movie seemed fairly accurate despite the Hollywood hokum of a sing-along of "Over The Rainbow" to help a Judy who could not remember or complete the song. But, hey, it ain't called the land of make-believe for nothin'
It is an excellent film (only three people in the audience the night I attended) capturing the vulnerability that was Judy Garland. By March of 1969, from photos of her so cadaverous, at that point it would not have taken much to push Judy Garland over the edge. "Accidental overdose" is simply a shortcut to ascribe to a very sickly woman. Chronic alcoholics cannot process nutrients from food; she could have just as easily died from cardiac arrest,
stroke, or embolism.
As a singer, in the list of top 100 songs (and I have no idea what list or whose list) I seem to recall that Judy Garland is represented with THREE in the top ten. That is NO small accomplishment and shows where she stands as a representative of the Great American Songbook.
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