Review 706: Maestro

  

Bradley Cooper is clearly a man of many talents, a charismatic leading and he also has a knack for good storytelling 

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 struggling with his demons. He was the first great American conductor  But Maestro pulls back the curtain to show us 

Bradley Cooper & Carey Mulligan are splendid in their roles

Maya Hawke

Sarah Silverman