No shortage of luxury problems in Falling for Figaro, a romantic comedy about a young woman who declines a promotion in finance and abandons her terribly nice fiancé to chase an old dream. Millie (Danielle Macdonald) wants to be an opera singer. She leaves London to take expensive singing lessons somewhere in the Scottish highlands with a sour opera diva (Joanna Lumley).
The fact that even a very talented amateur singer does not qualify for a prestigious opera tournament after a few months of lessons is just one of the many facts that the film completely ignores. Falling for Figaro asks the viewer to surrender all common sense in exchange for a sometimes quite pleasant, more often frustrating obligatory feel-good story about ‘following your heart’. Sad too, for that fiancé.
Falling for Figaro
Romantic comedy
Directed by Ben Lewin.
With Danielle Macdonald, Joanna Lumley, Hugh Skinner, Shazad Latif.
105 min., in 56 halls.