Falling for Figaro (2020)

Directed by

Ben Lewin

Genre

comedy film, romance film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

M

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A successful American fund manager quits her job in London to train as an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She studies under a demanding former diva and competes with a fellow student named Max.

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What happens

Falling for Figaro is a 2021 romantic comedy film written and directed by Ben Lewin, and starring Joanna Lumley, Danielle Macdonald and Hugh Skinner. American fund manager Millie, wanting to fulfill her life-long dream to become an opera singer, quits her lucrative London job to travel to the Scottish Highlands for a year of intense vocal training from a former opera diva and faces fierce competition from other opera singers including Max, Meghan's other student. The film was screened in the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival's Industry Selects film market in September 2020, but did not have its official public premiere until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released in the United States on 1 October 2021, in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2021, and in Australia on 14 July 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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