Falling For Figaro (2020)

This is an entirely predictable and yet quite enjoyable romantic comedy with three main characters. The first is Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop(played by Joanna Lumley), a retired opera star earning a precarious living by giving singing lessons in her farmhouse in a remote pocket of the Scottish Highlands. She’s not exactly overwhelmed by students. Only the most intrepid need apply since each lesson is a survival course, spiked with vitriol and made even more interesting by the occasional physical assault. It’s her view no opera singer succeeds without becoming intimately acquainted with the value of suffering. While she is not the main attraction, she ultimately steals the show. Meghan has just two students – Max (Hugh Skinner), a handsome local who has devoted years to his desire to have an opera career, and Millie (Australian actor Danielle Macdonald), an American who has given up her lucrative job as a fund manager in London to see if she, too, has what it takes to become a singer. It is hard to quite get why, not because it is not all about the money for everyone, but because her character doesn't give much insight into that--be that as it may, the movie rolls on, going exactly the direction you would expect it to, to an lovely ending. The singing is dubbed by people who know what they are doing and is a plus rather than a detrement.