This film is an original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter. It is filled with his unforgettable songs and Porter is looking back on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows. It is about the people and events of his life transferred as the actors and action onstage. There are elaborate production numbers and popular hits like Anything Goes, It’s De-Lovely and Night and day. There is information about Porter’s elegant and excessive past. Including, his deeply complicated relationship with his wife and muse, Linda Lee Porter.
The songs in this film are very beautiful as well as the clothing and hairstyles of this period. There are more than 30 songs featured and they are sung by contemporary artists. There are some long-obscured facts included. 4* (I really liked this movie)
125 min, Bio directed by Irwin Winkler and written by Jay Cocks with Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Sandra Nelson, Allan Corduner, Peter Polycarpou, Keith Allen, James Wilby, Kevin McKidd, Richard Dillane, Edward Bakr-Duly, Angie Hill, Harry Ditson, Taylor Hamilton.
Note: Imdb 6.6* out of 10* with 10,781 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 48% with 156 critics 66% with 10,425 audience scores, empireonline.com 2* Angie Errigo, Metacritic 53 out of 100 with 33 critic reviews, 7 out of 10 with 25 ratings, Amazon 4.5* out of 5* with 809 reviews.
Special Noe: The old style Cole Porter make-up took 54 hours to complete!! Ashley Judd was almost not cast because it was thought that she was beyond their budget. Her agent told them that she was interested in playing the role of Linda Porter. This is the final film of Natalie Cole. Kevin Kline played himself at the piano. There is a mistake when the Cole Porter musicals produced on Broadway in the 1930’s are shown. African-American and white women are dancing together in the chorus lines. Broadway chorus lines were not racially integrated until the 1970’s.
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