Review 706: Maestro

  

The film, working off of a screenplay written by Cooper and Josh Singer (Spielberg's The Post and First Man) is less focused on his career and more on his marriage to Felicia. Cooper structures the film like a series of vingettes focusing on different periods of Berstein's life so that you really do feel like you're travelling through roughly 20 years of his life.

Gorgeously rendered in black-and-white photography as a throwback to the grand romantic films of The Golden Age of Hollywood.

The cinematography is fantatsic, making fantatsic use of overhead shots and transitons to create a  and captures the winsome appeal of the 40s, 50s and 70s. The film makes extremely effective use of Leonard Bernstein's music throughout, almost as a way of  and it compliments the narrative beautifully.

Much like Cooper's previous directorial effort, 2018's A Star is Born, Maestro is about a musician stuggling with his demons