MAESTRO Movie Review | Bradley Cooper | Carey Mulligan | Leonard Bernstein
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- It seems only fitting that we'd have a lengthy review of "Maestro," given the larger-than-life persona of its subject, the legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. We work through our mixed feelings about the movie here, but we agree that Bradley Cooper's work as director, co-writer and star is a confident and dazzling technical achievement. Co-written by Josh Singer. Co-starring Carey Mulligan, Sarah Silverman, Matt Bomer and Maya Hawke. In theaters Nov. 22 before streaming on Netflix starting Dec. 20.
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Truly intriuged to see this! Dunno if our humble burgh will get it; Napoleon is starting this week instead, amidst a few other titles...CBS Sunday Morning did a piece interviewing Cooper & Bernstein's children. Hope we can see it on the big screen.
We hope so too! Definitely worth seeking out that way.
For such a harsh score penalty, your complaints seem a bit nit-picky. I felt for sure Alonzo would have gone to a 9. As a musician and singer who has performed Mahler's 8th, I wept at the trailer... pure joy.
Gotta say I wish Maestro was more about Bernstein's creative process than his personal life. maybe because I'm a musician but I couldn't care less who he slept with, I wanna know how he found inspiration from Mozart for a melody.🎼🎹🎶🎵
Definitely check out the actual Leonard Bernstein performance of the ending to Mahler 2. It's absolutely stunning and I'm excited to see Cooper's recreation of it.
Agree!
Yes, it's out there on TH-cam in several places. Let us know what you think when you see it!
How many new bucket list entries will be made after people experience on film the finale of the Mahler 2nd Symphony?
I was hoping that the movie would show a re-enactment of the Mahler 2 performance in Jerusalem w/the Israel Philharmonic in 1967. I’m guessing the ‘73 performance at Ely Cathedral w/the LSO was picked b/c the recording & musicianship was better. But scenes of Mt. Scopus would have been breathtaking.
as a musician and composer I'm just happy that a wider audience will get to know Bernstein for the first time. A true force of nature
AGREE!!!! You must be absolutely thrilled!!!!!
Totally agree!
Word.
Agree 100 percent!
You'll have to let us know what you think when you see it!
Just saw it today, and I agree on just about everything you said. It was wonderfully produced and the acting was superb, but I was left feeling indifferent to Bernstein, feeling no connection with him at all, even though Cooper was terrific in the role. It just felt empty to me at the end.
I think the movie is a miss. Feels superficial.
Indeed. Just very coy and counterfeit. All about Cooper rather than LB.
…lets be clear, just as Leo before him…Bradley WANTS that Oscar. he is from the actors studio, he is campaigning & multi nominated in various categories already, just like Warren was back in the day, so unless someone else builds the awards show momentum…he shall get it.
I say give it to him, and they maybe he can move on with his life. As an actor, filmmaker and human being, this is clearly holding him back.
Paul Giamatti.
Yes Cooper will probably have the narrative to win this year and it might be Best Actor. He has like 8 or 9 nominations already across multiple categories so the academy might think he’s due?
this is so so dumb. Bradley, just look at the movies that DO win Best Picture, are they really that great. Oscar voters are pathetic, motivated by specious political and economic concerns, and have been for as long as I've been following along, since the nineties. It is NOT a great honour to be feted by such fools. They rarely rarely rarely award it to the right movie, the best movies typically aren't even nominated. Shawshank Redemption, HELLO!
Jacob Elordi playing Elvis was better to me
This one strikes me as something that will play much better for critics than for audiences
Anoth Tarr?
So a better movie then.
I have not seen it, but loved Tarr
Critics aren't loving it tho
Let us know what you think when you see it!
No matter what Cooper will always be the hilarious "bad guy" in "Wedding Crashers", one of my favorite comedies. I love Carey Mulligan, stunningly beautiful and a great actress. "Drive", "An Education" and "Never Let Me Go" are 3 of my favorites.
His evolution from that persona has been fascinating, hasn't it?
@@BreakfastAllDay It has indeed but I hope he gets to play that type again for funsies.
I just finished watching this picture an hour ago. I really agree with you both on several points. The makeup, camerawork, costuming, production design, these were fantastic and impeccable. Ultimately I thought it could been narrowed down to a fixed point in Bernstein's life. The aim for a grand sweep or epic makes this feel to me as a series of events, inventive transitions aside. This felt like the cinematic equivalent of skipping a stone across a body of water. Personal note; the best scene of Bernstein conducting that Resurrection piece from Mahler's Symphony 2 made me flash back to my father's deathbed. Dad was a lover of classical music, and Mahler was one of his favorites. When the family had assembled around his bed, and as he started to slip away, he requested this music to be played at maximum volume there in the hospital room. Seeing the film's sequence play out nearly brought me to tears. Happy Holidays to you both.
Can't wait to see this movie. Went to his anniversary conducting concert at Carnegie and as we provided the 9' Baldwin and I managed the NYC stores - my mom and I attended and went back stage afterwards and my mom told Lenny - "I was exhausted watching you conduct" (he did so much direction with his shoulders) - Lenny replied to my mom that No - you should feel energized! A treat of a night, especially when who should sit next to us for the performance was but Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger. As vivid as if it happened last night!
What an incredible memory! Thank you for sharing it.
It was pretty to look at. I read that Bradley Cooper initially knew nothing about the composer and conductor other than "what he looked like and that he was an icon."
After watching it, I believe that - And Cooper still seems to know nothing about Bernstein's music.
If you aren't a knowledgeable fan of L.B.'s music, watching this movie will not educate you. I knew going in it was focused more on his marriage & affairs. It was on that & his conducting. Oh, and we saw him writing a few notes now & again. But most silly biopics give us a little more of an understanding of the person's art. Otherwise, this guy could've been a plumber. If I didn't know his music, I wouldn't have known what pieces in the soundtrack were his, or why a piece being played over a scene gave it extra meaning, etc. No mention of where he got his ideas, or his process, other than random shots of him practicing piano. Names of some major works mentioned, but then it's back to the (yawn) fleeting kiss of a guy. One scene he's talking to a friend, then another guy in the room (not seen) pipes in with a comment. Bernstein says "yes Copeland", or something. Only a L.B. nerd would know that Copeland was Aaron Copeland, and know that he was a close friend & mentor. No allusion to any of that in the scene. On to the next vignette. The Mass he composed, and it's premiere at the opening of the Kennedy Center, NO explanation of any of that, unless you already knew! It could have been a 5th performance of Mass he was attending in some concert hall, and unless you recognized the music, you would have no clue what composition of his you were hearing, or why. And it being such an important premiere adds SO MUCH to his wife's anger over him holding a guys hand that night. But oh well, L.B. fans will surmise.
If you want to show us a closeted married man and his struggles & wife, go watch "Far From Heaven", or some other fiction, as his own tale of it is definitely no more interesting. Make up a famous artist in the closet.
I enjoy watching Bernstein's Young People's Concerts and his Harvard lecture series The Unanswered Question, so I might well enjoy this over Christmas, too!
The ultimate tribute to the Giant of the Classical music industry, Leonard Bernstein. His long tenure with the New York Philharmonic is legendary
I didn’t mind the REM part… nice reference. I agree with the “episodic” feeling of the movie.
Yup. Didn't mind the needledrop at all. Instead of groaning it amused me and it very much fit the personality as presented in the movie.
But Breakfast All Day is generally very critical of needledrops, so not a surprise. :-)
I admired this movie greatly, but didn't love it. Can't really put my finger on any specifics, because when i do, I get in an argument with myself! lol I think it focusing on their relationship as opposed to doing the standard biopic thing worked well. i was invested in the two of them, mainly because of Carey Mulligan's performance. (I bought Cooper's Bernstein a little less for sure) And having the backdrop of his incredible music and the recollection of certain milestone events seemed a little less hackneyed to me.
You could make a movie about a year in the life of a famous person. And it might be a very good movie. But it wouldn't be a bio-picture. And it shouldn't be promoted/pushed as a bio-picture.
A bio-picture doesn't necessarily have to cover somebody's entire life. But at the very least it should cover
a significant portion of their life. And a year really wouldn't qualify as such.
In recent years I have seen an increasing number of movies that cover very short periods in a person's life referred to as BIO PICTURES by critics. And critics really shouldn't do that.
The most absurd example was the 2020 movie called "Shirley". Which had the real-life writer Shirley Jackson
as one of the main characters. Only the movie was a fictional story based on a novel. Which wouldn't qualify as
a bio-picture.
Plus the story takes place over just a few days. Which also wouldn't qualify as a bio-picture. And yet I saw several critics refer to this movie as a bio-picture.
Another movie in recent years that a lot of critics referred to as a bio-picture, that wasn't a. bio-picture
was "Spencer". A movie about Lady Di that played out over just a few days.
There are fans of bio-pictures who are drawn to the idea of a bio-picture., but who expect a bio-picture to cover more ground than just a few days. Or just a year. If all that person does is scroll down the critic's quotes on RT and see the term bio-picture for such movies, they might be disappointed as to what they get if they end up going to the movie based on that.
In fact I have seen posts on sites such as IMDB posted by people complaining that they didn't get the bio picture they thought they were going to get, based on critics calling it a bio-picture, when in fact the movie covered only a short time period of the person's life.
It's a movie critic's job to give their thoughts on a movie. But they really shouldn't be redefining terms
It is possible to make very good "bio pictures." Such as "Gandi/ "Sergeant York/ "Malcolm X/ "Raging Bull".
But "Spencer" was a movie about what filmmakers imagined a few days were like in the life of a real-life person.
And "Shirley" is a fictional story, that takes place over just a few days, that utilizes a real-life person as one of the main characters.
Saw the movie today. Its masterful. I think you guys didnt get it. It wasnt a biopic. It was a story of a marriage. How one had to give up her dreams for her husband to fly. The toll it took on them & their marriage. My understanding from watching an interview with Bradley & Bernstein's children. Who talk lyrically like their parents. It wasnt a 40's trope. I had that type of banter with my husband in college. Its just that the American language & expression of it has gone down hill.
I HATE THESE 2 sooo much!
I see there is at least one film critic on here who actually knows what they are talking about. Well done for pointing out what this film is really about.
0:48 it must be from his early 30's or earlier to mid 80's, because he got married when he was 33
The Steve Jobs movie with Michael Fassbender nailed it. But also incredible writing.
I think they dropped the ball overall on how complex LB was. How he felt conflicted and guilty after Felcia died. How he tried to cure himself of homosexuality through therapy. When Felicia agrees to accept him this was originally written in a letter but passively said by Felicia off screen, this should have been a face to face conversation between them instead. The fact that LB slept with other women was mostly left out which some could see as bi erasure. All of these deep personal moments were just left out in the final act.
Helps to know before hand that this movie is more a study of a marriage than a Bernstein biop. As such it is worth seeing but you will learn a lot more about Bernstein watching one of many documentaries about him. The title does suggest this is a story about the musician and the personal stuff can seem intrusive at times. Worth seeing if only for the Mahler 2 scene. More of that would have gone down well with me.
I was really distracted by the fact that Cooper looked like he was aged 50 years while Carey only looked like she aged 5, maybe 10 with the cancer lol
Maybe it's just me but I've always sensed major Oscar bait vibes from this film. Unlike "A Star Is Born" which I was excited for, this feels like Oscar season homework.
It's Bradley Cooper. I doubt you will ever find anyone who cares more about the Oscars then him. I don't even have any doubt that's the main reason why he choose to make this film.
@@basquat76 That seems like a bad reason to me.
Both major Oscar baity films
Very much so.
kind of pathetic really, especially when you see what kind of movies actually do take home Best Picture@@basquat76
An almost made biopic is based on the short book by Tommy James, Me the Music and the Mob. It would be a great film, and is a very good book. Sophia Coppola was attatched to it pre-covid.
Please review Thanksgiving.
Just saw it on Netflix and sorry to say I was disappointed. Firstly I found it hard to understand as the concern to really drive home that east coast/mid atlantic accent was so over played it got in the way most of the time. I also couldn't get past all the make up changes on Bradley Cooper,I was always distracted by it. I also have a beef with really evenly lit ,sharp crystal clear black and white without any attention to lights and darks, its too modern looking for a period piece. Lastly I found the story uninteresting and could see the play/acting, (what was Sarah Silverman doing in there?) aside from Carey Mulligan who gave a succinct yet powerful performance. ❤
Having just seen it and being blown away by it, I really think Christy misunderstood this flick.
It has some of the stuff you’re referring to, but this isn’t a movie about the life of LB. It’s a story about a marriage.
The film is called maestro, and I don’t think it’s a mistake that the films ends with an image of Mulligan, not Cooper.
The film makes the case that they were necessary to each other and his greatness couldn’t have done without her companionship and genuine love.
I find the movie to be an expression of talent manifest thru a connection with another.
Bernstein is at his best creatively when he is with his wife despite him ultimately being a gay man.
It’s a really wonderful picture!
Thanks very much for your impressions, Ian.
7s not a bad score
I loved this movie! Maestro and The Zone of Interest are my two favorites of the year.
A good example of how to nail a biopic by zeroing in on a few specific key years in a person’s life- LOVE & MERCY - the Brian Wilson film with Paul Dano, John Cusack and Elizabeth Banks.
Love how you both work through this. I agree with what you said as I was conflicted as well. So many great components and such a let down as a whole. I left the film wishing they had chosen one moment in Bernstein's life , dug into it to find the person and used flash backs to illustrate. I'm a 7. BTW, I'm a huge fan of Mahler and the Resurrection sequence perfectly illustrates the problem with the film. It jumps out of nowhere, is brilliant and disappears with no legacy.
Am so looking forward to this one, not least because of the increasingly conflicted critical responses to it, and how uniquely complex was the Bernstein marriage. Jamie Bernstein's memoir "Famous Father Girl" has perhaps set me up to be predisposed to appreciate the limited perspective and showiness. That said, "End of The World"? Oh dear. Well, we shall see. Thanks as ever, Christy and Alonso.
It was pretty cringey! Let us know what you guys think.
@BreakfastAllDay It's a concerto on a subject that required a symphony. Merely the lack of even one scene with Stephen Sondheim, to say nothing of the fact that Lenny composed "West Side Story" and "Candide" simultaneously -- Felicia even alludes to it during the "Person to Person" interview -- without showing a single moment of the creation of WSS -- the insertion of the Prologue as underscoring is not sufficient -- or the absence of any N.Y. Phil hijinks -- a major part of the Bernstein historical legacy-- or even a snippet of "Omnibus" or the Young People's Concerts, suggests that Mr. Cooper's focus is perhaps less on his subject than his own Oscar-baiting ambitions. Don't get me started on the gay element, or rather, the little more than surface exploration of same, and the "End of The World" needle drop was just wrong, shockingly wrong. That said, there are several frisson-inducing sequences, Mr. Cooper certainly transforms himself, and Ms. Mulligan is, as usual, wonderful. Liked it a lot, but cannot say it wholly succeeded as either biopic or character(s) study. Thanks as ever, Christy & Alonso.
@@DavidN369 Always appreciate your thoughtful insights! That's the thing, it tries to cover so much of his life and ends up feeling inadequate in the many ways you mentioned. Carey Mulligan is great though. Thanks David!
@BreakfastAllDay well, THAT'S a mercy, ANYHOW. As always, the thanks are entirely ours. Happy New Year's.
There are so many lame series on the various platforms that are dragged out to fill 8 or so episodes. Bernstein has earned and deserves one of his own that would actually be interesting and required for a full picture of his life and legacy.
What to make of Carey Mulligan's accent? Is she portraying a Chilean/Jewish character that occasionally lapses into a British accent? What happened to the dialect coach?
But if you hear interviews of Felicia, she does sound like that!
This felt like a vanity project in so many ways. I felt nothing by the end credits. 😔
Interesting. It didn't even work for you from a technical perspective?
My biggest question about this one is - does he have a right go at a triangle player for 15 minutes?
If so - I'm in.😉
I watched this movie yesterday, and I loved it. Never have I watched a movie where the subject matter of Bisexuality in a long term relationship is treated with such sensitivity, honesty and respect. Though I must correct: Bernstein's same-sex attraction was never a 'secret' in New York circles. Just as Bernstein's marriage wasn't one of 'convenience,' but of genuine and mutual respect and adoration. Felicia somehow understood that Leonard's sexual identity can't simply be tolerated; it must also be accepted and allowed the freedom to express itself. However, "Maestro" shows how a relationship founded on openness and truth can still become problematic. It wasn't Leonard's needs that changed, but Felicia's, and she deserved the same compassion and understanding that was afforded to Leonard.
Watching the movie I saw their relationship as a true-to-life portrayal of two people constantly learning how to maneuver their marriage through rocky terrain and changng times. Even in today's socially affirming LGBTQ climate, marriages in which one or both people identity as Bisexual are still shamed, devalued, and stigmatized. Hopefully movies like "Maestro" can help educate and change those perceptions.
I’m on my way to the theatre now. Can’t wait to see Bob Cobb get his due!
I didn't enjoy the film the first time. However, on second viewing, I really appreciate it. Both Cooper and Mulligan are giving outstanding performances. Also, his Direction is fantastic.
He makes so many bold, exciting choices. Thanks Jason!
Bernsteins ego would have killed most men. Cooper shows a humility that Bernstein really didnt. I dont think he was as nice as Cooper plays him. And Bernstein often conducted and cues a bit before the beat, which seemed hard to follow. ( his Leonore #3 at the met Centennial for example. Copper wisely didnt attempt that in the mahler 2nd.
I actually loved the REM bit!
Hm glad to hear there are some redeeming qualities in this after that PRETENTIOUS trailer almost made me skip entirely lmao. Love you guys! Let’s enjoy the amount of all these auteur films coming out, it’s been stacked!
Yes for sure, 'tis the season!
I am puzzled by your complaint that the movie was trying to include too much and needed a more narrow focus. The majority of the complaints I read is that the movie is too narrowly focused on their relationship and left out too much of his musical career and political activism (especially Felicia’s). And from the interviews I’ve seen with Bradley Cooper, that was his intention. He wanted to focus on their relationship rather than his career achievements. I do agree that the On the Town dance sequence scene felt rather forced and corny to me.
Good review.
But getting angry with a music segment of 2 seconds (the REM moment) and a few moments later dropping a Coffee plug is rather ironic.
Carey Mulligan made this movie for me every time she was on screen I would get excited this is her best performance to date
Positive: Superb acting by both Bradley & Carey. The black & White scenes were Superb.
Pitfalls: The movie loses its cohesiveness halfway when the plot seems to.... fall apart? perhaps intentionally* in order to describe the downturn of Lenny & Felicia relationship to the end of it.... at some point neither Lenny nor Leticia are the focus, but rather the "void & messiness" of their lives that appears more "anecdotic" than consecutive to the script flow........
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Leaving aside the amazing direction and production, the nakeup and fabulous actkng - this is a film about marriage, about love, about family and the temptations of fame and fortune, and of course the temptations of the flesh. LB's wife sacrificied her dreams for him and for fanily which yet again (If you have studied film) shows the exact opposite to the woman's emancioation from the family unit it shows a selfless comitmment to the family and her husband who in turn flourishes in his artistic life because she enables that 'normality'' and thus stability, she, as a mother and a wife is the stabalizing element, the anchor, the rudder. She is the truth and the light that glues them As a family and, especially LB to his musical ambitions.
I felt the story overplayed his gayness. I wish it had focused more on his talent and performance. He was a genius…what he enjoyed in the bedroom is none of my business. I think it cheapened his legacy.
I have to comment that I don’t agree. It was just enough to show how he lived and how it affected his life (I like everybody….). I am glad there was no male nudity or sex. Carey Mulligan was “best actress worthy” . The dance sequence of On The Town was “fantastic”. That direction was super cool……. Getting back to gay. There were (are) plenty of guys like Bernstein. I met many in the 70s.
It’s Hollywood. What’d you expect?
Cooper was amazing, but I was hoping for more focus on the music like Amadeus. The Mahler 2 scene was good, but I was hoping for Chichester Psalms, a great, celebrated work which he composed. Also, West Side Story shouldn’t have been relegated to background music! I agree that the wife’s role was stereotypical, yet well played by Mulligan.
Seriously, I don’t know if this has come up, but I grew up with LB being fed to me as if I were a pate goose and I have to day that Cooper OVERDOES it in the portrayal of Lennie.
Sure, LB was a big presence but Cooper’s Lenny talks so fast that he is difficult to comprehend, babbles constantly, flings himself around wildly….you feel a bit embarrassed for him. Real Bernstein spoke clearly, seemed controlled, and made sense.
It was also a mistake to leave WEST SIDE STORY completely out of this. A film about LB and Sondheim working together would be witty and fascinating
Why doesn’t she let him talk ???
Episodic feels helps the casual general audience
Wait. The character is from Costa Rica/Chile. And they cast Carey Mulligan?
Nahhhhhh lmao such a Hollywood thing to do
They did indeed.
But is the real life person she's portraying actually latina? What I'm getting at is let's not all assume that ALL people from CR/Chile are not caucasian...
@@MrSwinefuzz felicia is really white, and her father is american.
@@kellyzhou9971 If so, then Hollywood didn't do "such a Hollywood thing" and whitewash cast again... I'll refrain from suggesting that that's progress! I don't want to appear to be defending f'n Hollywood. I just hate it when people assume!
Smooth coffee Ad segue!
Ha, we try, thanks.
Hmm. I don’t think the coffee sponsor is doing flips with the tie in with cigarettes. I loved the scene when they are arguing on thanksgiving day and you see the parade go by through their bedroom windows.
A great example of him letting his actors act (in this instance, himself) in long takes to follow the natural rhythms and tensions of the argument. It feels like we're spying on them with the camera in the hallway.
@@BreakfastAllDay I actually watched this movie a second time and I have to say I liked it a lot more after that.
The film misses in showing the sheer genius and calm intellect of Bernstein. For viewers a taste of Bernstein’s unparalleled brilliance : th-cam.com/video/8IxJbc_aMTg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YbIOZg1qbNu8U432
Christy is the Leonard Bernstein of ad segueways.
I practiced for six years to perfect that ad read.
Suuuuuuuuper excited to see it. Please God in a theater though 😂 🤌
Yes, for sure, and please report back!
I had hoped for a more idiosyncratic and playful storrytelling style than just a chronological biopic.
With such a brilliant, accomplished, mercurial, multi-layered ham as Bernstien perhaps "Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould" should have been the model.
Oh well. At least the hair was on point.
They are so very wrong. This is anything but a chronological biopic!
Agreed- it's very much not chronological biopic (in a way that has actually PROVOKED criticism). Instead of focusing on all of his achievements and packing them in one after another, it focuses on the relationship and marriage (and obviously the accomplishments come into play, but that's not the primary focus).
!!! I, too thought of "Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould". But for this one, I felt like Cooper actually thought he wasn't going for that approach. I don't want a filmmaker to dumb it down for us, but this one gave so little information, I felt like I was entering conversations late and leaving early, wondering who was in some scenes and why it should matter.
Couldn't disagree more. I was absolutely blown away! And I'm a huge movie buff, so it takes a lot to impress me. Oscars galore for this masterpiece!
Glad you loved it more than we did! And yes, it likely will get some Oscars.
Isn’t it Bernsteeeeen?
It is not.
No, and I would have hoped that this movies and the many interviews with his children would have finally put an end to that
controversy.
@@priscillamarsh4623 it’s a “controversy”?? I thought it was just a simple question 🤣
interesting
Just watched the film and meh… very mixed. Weirdly, I wish I could see the Damien Chazelle version of this movie 😂😂😂
Ah interesting, what are you mixed about?
I posted a video about Leonard Bernstein on my TH-cam channel that documents what he was really doing on stage as a conductor. There's a phenomenon in the press where they pick 2 or 3 classical musicians and designate them as SACRED COWS. No matter what the sacred cows do on stage, the press refers to it as "the greatest." Bernstein was one of those sacred cows. The television appearances he did show him adding trumpets to the orchestra with Beethoven's symphonies and then when the interviewer asks him about Beethoven's ability to orchestrate, he says " IT'S BAD. He has the trumpets sticking out and they're drowning out everybody else!"
This movie is way overrated. Another Oscar bait bio pic. Nothing new here.
I respect your review but disagree. I found it deeply moving and not remotely episodic. It was the journey of a marriage - a profound and complex relationship. She is the Maestro - she is the conducter of their lives.
I haven’t seen this film yet, but I’m going to predict that the six minute conducting sequence is the adagietto from Mahler’s 5th Symphony.
It's this: www.classicfm.com/composers/bernstein-l/bradley-cooper-six-years-conduct-mahler-maestro/
It's his famous performance of the finale of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony
Thats a cry for Oscar from Cooper
Nope. It’s the last movement of the Resurrection Symphony (No. 2). However, you do get to hear the Adagietto elsewhere in the film.
This is not a dialog, but a monolog!
The Coffee Bros have hitched their wagon to dim stars ...at 12:05
This is a very confusing insult!
Just give Cooper his well-deserved Oscar already!
Nah. He is facing a real tough competition this year. Cillian Murphy is still the front runner for Oppenheimer, besides DiCaprio for Flower Moon. Colman Domingo has a good shot too for playing Rustin since the movie is produced by the Obamas.
He's definitely going for it here.
Oh boy another Oscar bait artsy confusing movie. Yep, I will pass. I hate it for Bradley Cooper. Thanks for the review.
It's not confusing at all, actually. It's a very straightforward biopic.
I saw it at the Savannah Film Festival, and it's one of my worst for the year. It looks beautiful, but I think the performances are overdone from both of them. I found it primarily dull, and you never get why he was this force for music. The last 20 minutes are nice, but it never works.
We hear a lot about how he was a musical genius but we don't see him doing much as an actual musician, outside of that one incredible scene in the cathedral. Thanks for your thoughts!
Says she's been looking forward to discussing this film with the guy: talks non-stop for the next 5 mins (guy can hardly get a word in sideways).
So glad you took the time to watch our discussion. What did you think of the film?
I’ll go and see it but we have plenty of film of Bernstein. Do we need this?
It's exceptionally well made. Check it out!
Sure christy the blond film school girl doesn’t know what coffee and cigarettes taste like🙄
Ha, I was a journalism major.
I think I just don’t like your view Alonso and this will be my last feedback about your “up your nose” effect on me. Clever is simply boring. Already unsubscribed.
Truly irritated to hear about your MIXED feelings about this incredible MASTERPIECE in every way. What's wrong with you. Whjy can't you just say IT"S A MASTERPIECE
movie stunk...i tried
I was hoping this was based on the maestro character from Seinfeld.
Bernstein insisting on being called Maestro. How great would that have been
As soon as Christie said “covering a large swath of his life, so that it feels very superficial and you’re only viewing vignettes” it made me think immediately of Benjamin Button. You end up just seeing a series of beautiful postcards and never actually enter into their journey because the page is turning to a different decade before you fully understand the relational dynamics that are supposed to sustain the narrative.
Enjoyed this movie. I know this is different movie but Maestro did not achieve classical music world building like TAR. Latter one is masterpiece with transformative Cate Blanchett's performance without any trickeries of makeup.
Tars classical music world was so upsetting wrong compared to the real life that spoiled Blanchett forever for me
Usually I side with Alonso, but I'm with Christie here - this is such an empty movie that even though it's technically so well done it is just not at the level to compete with the great movies. It lacks passion and intensity - why no sex?? 6.8 is very generous - I'd give it 6 at the most.
Oh, yes, the poor “put upon wife” who knowingly married a gay man. It’s bizarre that the focus of the film is on their relationship, while ignoring the repressive society that forced him to make such an all consuming compromise with his true nature. Besides the homophobia at the heart of the film, it was boring.
This movie sucked. A meandering overly stylized bio that ultimately tells you nothing
I really like what Alonso had to say about narrowing the scope of the biopic for effect. Well put.
Those usually make for the best biopics.
If I'm not mistaken, that high-energy 40's talk was a Hollywood trope and not how regular people actually talked. While I have no doubt that some regular folks copied that affectation after seeing it in the talkies, it was "a movie actor thing". That's why it would irk me that these modern day actors in Maestro would assume that real people did that for realsies. If this were a comedy it would work, but it ain't so it looks foolish and fake and wannabe. Sorry Bradley, sorry Carey. Sometimes less is more.
I read the black and white part of the film as an homage to films from that era rather than being strictly realistic. Just look at the dance scene with the sailors, or the fantastical shot right at the beginning when Bernstein has his first break. It is supposed to evoke that Era. When the film becomes color, it coincides with the development/ focus of the challenges in their marriage and the shots and the way they speak is much more realistic (for someone born in that era). It's a loss of innocence and a gaining of realism.
I watched both Napoleon and Maestro. Napoleon is much better executed. Both movies examine the intense relationship in 2 couples but Napoleon integrates the historical events, larger than life persona of Napoleon compared to the anemic disjointed presentation of Leonard Bernstein. Napoleon shows the war and battle scenes yet Maestro shows surprisingly little music and neglects many major aspects of Bernstein’s musical connection and achievement. I was really moved and entertained by Napoleon. I was so underwhelmed and disappointed with Maestro’s cliched, tame ending.
Good god, why have a guest on?? She talks the whole time just by herself--no thanks.
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The main character is bisexual. Referring to him as a gay man is bi erasure.
Lol bisexuals are so greedy
Speaking as a bi guy, bi erasure has been a long time and very common thing. And it has come from both
the straights and the gays. But it has gotten somewhat better in the 2000s. Although it hasn't completely disappeared.
This was terrible. Why does Hollywood celebrate such jerks as Bernstein? Bad choice by Cooper. I get Bernstein accomplished great things career wise, but addiction and affairs made him a not so great guy personally. I also think Mulligans' character and Bernsteins' real life wife was very weak willed to stay with him. I hope neither wins the Oscar. I would rather have seen Mulligan win for Promising Young Woman, not this poor role.
does not look that good !!!!
Sean, do you plan on seeing it?
@@BreakfastAllDay ....no .....does not look that good !!!!!
I also don´t know how I feel about this movie. It really looks GREAT. Cooper directs some very interesting sequences, like when Bernstein and his wife are having a discussion in a room, the camera is completely still and we see the whole fight... and then a giant Snoopy float is seen through the window. But, yes, you don´t learn much about this man and what the film is trying to say.
Terrible movie. Not sure why people are not calling a spade a spade. Perhaps showing favoritism to BCoop, or maybe Bernstein. Leonard's musical achievements are an afterthought. This movie plays it like the main achievement in his life was marrying Felicia. But even his private life was uninteresting, and done with an avant-garde style that doesn't fit the biopic genre. His gay life was skirted upon, but not fleshed out. Perhaps Bernstein's survivors limited what could be revealed or played out. Or maybe it's Josh Singer's fault. He writes boring movies. BCoop made himself look almost identical to Bernstein, though Bernstein's trademark raspy voice was portrayed as some sort of chronic stuffy nose. Bernstein was a great and fascinating man, and deserves a better movie.
Terrible seems a little harsh ... there's too much craft on display. We have no BCoop favoritism 😄
I’m interested to hear what you have to say about: 1. The Nose and 2. Carrie Mulligan, White Woman, playing a person of color
I'm Jewish. No problem with the nose. Regarding Mulligan playing a person of color. Probably similar to Cooper playing. a Jewish man in the 1940's. If we are ready to pounce on those who take on such projects, won't we squash creativity and something important about us as human beings? I say, assume good will, and then if a problem presents itself, address it.
Didn’t have a problem with either, but understand how some folks might. Both actors look a lot like the people they’re playing, and Bernstein’s own children have defended the use of prosthetics. The makeup work here is incredible. Thanks for your question! -Christy
@sarahuff396 Felicia Bernstein is not a person of color! You should look her up :) I think Carrie Mulligan and her look quite similar actually.
Have you seen photos of Felicia? Just because she was born in Latin America doesn’t mean that she wasn’t “white.” Many Latin American people are white or mostly white.
When performers or directors have these passion projects, they are often too close to the material to see it the way an audience will. IT becomes a museum piece rather than a living text. That's what it sounds like with this film. I'm also not sure I want to see yet another tortured closeted gay man.
So I didn't know this film existed until they showed a trailer at VIFF yesterday in front of May December. What I will say, before anything else, is that I really do not care for this thing where we take great-looking actors and make them look old, withered, aged. I'll just come out and say it, and I think Pauline Kael was also honest on this point: one of the most fundamental reasons I go to see movies is that I love to look at great-looking people, doing interesting exciting dangerous inventive things. So when we have Carey Mulligan, who is her base state is sexy as hell (albeit in a contained, calm, serene package), as an aged busted weathered old lady in Felicia's twilight years, that really does not float my boat, I'm not going to open my wallet for that. I'd rather just watch Drive again, soak in her sublime cuteness there for the twenty-third time. Or maybe The Dig, she's older there but still very appealing.
It’s a good movie in a sea of bad, woke ones. Sure, it’s got faults but it’s a great depiction of Bernstein.
Cooper should be a lock for Best Actor Oscar. But is it woke enough?
Not sure what you mean by that.
As Ive said before i can't stand how Lemeire goes out of her way to use terrible grammar. Can't she say prestigious people instead of "prestigi"? That's not even a real word! In the Napolen review she says "draggy" in regard to the battles instead of dragging. She never used to talk that way in the early 2000s. We need older serious reviewers/commentators who don't cater to the "kids". As for this movie. I guess Carey Mulligan has been trying to get the bad taste of, She Said, out of people's mouths and maybe Promising Young Women doing stuff like this where she seems more likebale and an interesting sounding character in that Saltburn flick. I hate seeing her play insufferable, angry parts. I'm not totally thrilled to see this film because Im not fascinated by Bernstein. I'm aware of who he was and respect the talent though. I did love A Star Is Born and Cooper seems to have a very old fashioned appreciation of fillmmaking. Specifically the seventies, with the Cinematography, music, heavy dialogue, editing, etc. But most movies that go straight to Netflix, ughhh!!!
I know my YOLO from my FOMO and no one can take that away from me. Thanks for watching, Christy
Hopefully Bradley Cooper will get the Academy Award for Best Prosthetic Nose like Nicole Kidman did for playing Virginia Woolf's nose.