I look at it knowing Bradly Cooper put his heart and soul in the movie. Acting was superb--it came from his heart. Carey Mulligan was wonderful also. Just a comment from me.
Days later I am still pondering this movie. Not only was it a visual feast and the actors portrayals were amazing, it really captured the angst and deep disappointments that happen to someone who marries a spouse who is struggling with their sexuality. Cancer is often a stress disease.
That's true ..as a oncologist I have sadly seen this.The patient especially women who going through divorce or marriage problems..same treatment and they are stage 2 but due to the external factors mostly uncaring , unsupportive spouse,money issues, children they just give up and their bodies give up.Its very sad cause they re miracles when they in stage 4 and I'm crying cause I feel a family member is dying..then suddenly they get better..this cases I notice they have support ,love prayer..it's amazing what the strength of love can do for human spirit and the body.
Very good review and well stated. As a classical music lover and having many of Bernstein recordings, especially his Mahler symphonies, I was disappointed in that the focus was less on his music and more on his personal life. The final scene of the last movement of Mahler’s Resurrection symphony was so moving it brought tears to my eyes. I guess this is what I was hoping the movie had more of. For what it portrayed it was still a good movie with great acting.
I would echo the first review comme ts..Cooper does as does rest of the astxcellent jobs’but more music might have made this an excellent film it’s ver title suggests as much..worth watching but for non musical feeling individuals I feel will find it abord..but the curiosity element could help lots of viewers to enjoy it
Bernstein's story is really not that interesting? What?! One of the most iconic musical figures of the last century. Ely Cathedral is a very important piece. And the end pulls things together with the argument between Felicia and Lenny at the Dakota apartment with the Macy's Day Parade in the background was amazing in so many ways.
I said "arguably," not "really." It's open to interpretation and worth talking about. I phrased it this way because there were definitely interesting parts of his story, but some of his experiences we see in this movie are pretty common. This is nowhere close to being the first story about someone having marital issues, following off the wagon, indulging in drugs, and then piecing things together.
True. so many supremely talented artists succumb to addiction and marital issues. No surprise. But. I do believe their relationship was very interesting, rich and unique. I think the effort is trying to show the depth and conflict in their relationship. My concept of the film is holding two conflicting realities. First, relational. As he holds the fluidity of his sexuality and his relationship with his wife and family. Secondly, the internal conflict he felt as an artist in expressing his unique gifts. I think he felt his composing was his greatest gift and his time conducting/teaching, etc led him away from that at times. If you are trying to wrap your head around his genius, realize that he is conducting the Mahler Symphony totally by memory without any score. The clips they have online of him conducting the exact piece that was represented in the film show no score in front of him.
@debradominiakrinck6699 Those are great points. There's definitely a lot more to his story that isn't explicitly said. I do think that there were some missed opportunities to delve deeper into his personal struggles with his sexuality and his marriage. Correct me if I'm wrong, but outside of his big argument with Felicia, I don't recall much of him really talking about his relations with men during his marriage, if at all.
Great work man! Really insightful review and impressive editing. And I agree how this is a film for cinephiles and also how the end stagnates a bit after what is mostly a great film. I felt after the epic conducting climax of the Mahler piece, it was a little too drawn out on the jarring change in pace. I enjoyed the film otherwise though, and on a positive, I think both Bradley and Carey will definitely get nominated. Honestly, I've never seen a movie review channel with less than 10,000 subs have video production this good, so keep going! Subscribed. :)
I'm just not so interested in his personal life. I'm interested in what made him such a legend. Berenstein is revealed to be a self-centered man who clearly lacked restraint or consideration for the masochistic woman who married him.
I went to see this with a friend. I usually enjoy the more pretentious Oscar baity films whereas he likes cinema more as pure entertainment rather than a form of art. Yet, I loved the black and white bit and he walked out to get food cuz he was bored, then he came back for the color bit and loved it while I was constantly checking my watch.
I agree with your friend. The first part looked to me more like a cheap kitchen maid novel and I was constantly looking at my watch. With the scene with the Laudamus Te, when Felicia notices Bernstein holding hands with the man next to him, for me the movie started. And became interesting. As far as I am concerned, they could just as well have left out the first 50 minutes.
This film is a fail as a biopic. I still don't know who this man was only depend on the movie and didn't understand any of his motivations through his life.
Thanks for a well-written and very engaging review. I haven't seen the film and, as a fan of Bernstein's music, was hoping it was worth seeing. Your review is a subtle nudge, not an enthusiastic shove, so honestly I'm still not sure. Based on what you said, I'm curious if the film would've benefitted from a greater focus on Bernstein's music. Even if you thought his personal life couldn't carry an entire story, his music certainly could. Yes, I want a peek into the man and the marriage, but there's a reason this film is called "Maestro", and not "Hubby".
I love it.. Great direction,Amazing acting,fantastic cinematography.feel like going through their journey with them...only problem..it ended too soon...just wished it showed more of his career journey
@@MovieMuseOfficial in Steven Spielberg interview with Bradley Cooper,SS said he would have done a biopic and focus more on the career.Nothing against Bradley Cooper he had to act and direct but this is why SS is the Maestro .he's direction probably would have the marriage in the background or maybe included it on the same level
Bradley commented on that. He said there is so much videography of Lenny, and his accomplishments, that doing a standard Bioptic would’ve merely rehashed those moments. Through deeper research, he and his cowriter found the depth of a story with his relationship with Felicia.
This great romance in the beginning of the film? Wasn't it true that she knew he was gay before they got married? That they broke off their engagement and that she only circled back to him after her relationship with Richard Hart ended when he died? Was she more of a friend, supporter, confidante - and beard - than a wife? I don't know the answers but I've seen these suggested outside the film. This film was, uh, hazy on these points.
I felt like Cooper was kind of desperate with this performance, it was too much. The prosthetics also looked bad IMO. Carey Mulligan was great, agreed. I think in the beginning though, he seemed quite upset, and I had to go read up on it to learn that he did want to live openly as a gay man and then decided to get married, after asking Aaron Copeland for advice, and he said to him ok I guess I'll marry her.. The film just had vague references to him and that handsome guy he is with being upset, but none of it is clear at all. I felt like I was learning nothing about Bernstein. There could have been more about living in the closet for the sake of a career, maybe too close to home for Hollywood. Or make it more about his career. Imagine if at the end they'd shown the Berlin concert after the wall fell. Much more interesting.
The movie starts of well and you are correct about the good use of black and white - but the film or Cooper really is not interested in dealing with Bernstein gay romances they are push to the back ground- Matt Bomer's role should have been longer - it would have been interesting to see him at a later stage - its not a bad film but could have been better if it had been more honest - yes this was a story about a marriage but its also about a gay man
The analysis are interesting and add to the film. BC went in many directions trying to capture an interesting? Complex? Man! Biopics are always challenging because they see almost everything through the eyes of the people who have complex agendas - often benign but they muddy the water. Did BC want to tell us a love story? Of a man, woman their survival in closeted times? Or a creative, fun, loving dad and husband? Or the music? Or is this a movie about a wife who thinks she can cope with affairs - but can’t but also wants to remain in the centre of the whirlpool that was? LB. As a boomer I was interested in his creative choices - but of course want to know the goss! Maestro barely touches anything maybe! How would I know? I also have a vision of LB in my head - so?????
I don't think BC fully understood Bernstein before making this attempt to accurately portray the maestro. His conducting of Mahler's 2nd wasn't as fun to watch because it was all out of sync. It was very awkward and Lenny would really have a big problem with it if he had seen it.
This movie will go down in History as the movie where everybody is always smoking in every scene. I'm sure the tobacco industry loves this movie and probably threw some bucks to it's production budget. Oh, and maybe it should have been called «The maestro's wife».
Bradley should have just portrayed Herbert Von Karajan because the nose job made him look more like the other maestro. And he didn't spend time to emulate Bernstein conducting style. His part where he did Mahler's 2nd Symphony Finale looked quite awkward and very out of sync. I'm an avid Bernstein fanatic and the way this movie treated his real artistic genius on the podium turned me off as soon as Bradley started his own conducting. It's a shame because there are some moments where he did sound like the way Lenny spoke.
I was disappointed in the movie. Acting WAS excellent, but found transitions jarring and there was a distance from getting emotionally involved with the characters. Would have liked much more focus on his music. Didn't watch it till the end.
I love classical music and I revere Bernstein. Not gonna see this one. As one might have predicted, it's all about what I call "wee wee issues." I have ZERO interest in what Leonard Bernstein did with his wee wee. Will someone please make a movie about an artist that actually focuses on ART? If you don't consider the art compelling, why make the movie?
I abandoned ship 20 minutes in. It's a disjointed patchwork film full that is hard to follow and at times made no sense. There were so many ways they could have told this story but for some reason, the chose the worst possible.
You sound like an infant. Bernstein's sexuality issues are actually culturally significant, as they no doubt fueled his work in some ways. He was a true bisexual and literally tried to live his life "everywhere all at once." The man was a multiverse.
Lenny, was a composer, a piano player, a musician, a conductor of two of the greatest orchestras in the world and an amazing teacher. I couldn’t agree more with the comment that the movie misses the mark by a thousand miles in tackling the actual artistic matters which is why I love Bernstein and pays no attention to his craft in rehearsals, particularly when preparing for a Mahler symphony. It merely makes a 3 minute climax with the finale of the 2nd symphony of Mahler “resurrection” and doesn’t even tell us why or how we got there. Coopers conducting is a mix between Willie Coyote on steroids and an epileptic attack and from the technical aspects there are several conducting mistakes where he asks for a downbeat when the piece clearly asks for an upbeat. Very disapointing. And I don’t believe for a second Coopers depiction of Lenny, not the voice or anything. And Lenny’s eyes were NOT blue. Shoddy work. Very shoddy. Cheers to Ms Mulligan.
You definitely need to avoid this film. It doesn't give you any real clue about why he was so revered and why he was a musical genius. It's very strange and a bit baffling.
I'm glad I don't depend on your reviews to decide what to watch. You say Bernstein's life was not that interesting? By the way the opening scene showed Leonard rising up and weeping a drape open then beating on another man's but in his bed. It started long before he married.
She also agreed to marry him knowing he was gay. She wrote him a letter saying that, and saying she knew he would never change. The film is really weak on that side of it. She does say it was her choice but it's not made clear enough at all.
Wow, did you miss the mark on the 3rd act ... because of your oblivious, nearly blind grasp of the Mahler 2nd ... one of the greatest cinematic moments not only of this year, but most ...literally the filmic expression of a musical crescendo to a triumphant, symphonic climax - literally named, um, wait for it ... The Resurrection Symphony - the rebirth of Lenny's & Felicia's mutual love, adoration and commitment to one another, despite the emotional complexities, missteps and travails of their relationship. A bravura acting performance precisely when and where one crucially and precisely belonged - in a feat of spectacular, versatile, humbling, aesthetically and technically brilliant filmmaking. Good God - not a pun, but a nod to Mahler's sublime contemplation of The Divine - how could someone shrug at this masterpiece?? ... Especially compared to the now almost perpetual and regrettable bilious discharge of what passes for modern Hollywood movies ... Maestro is a glass of chilled champagne awash in a sea of tepid Tab.
One problem with this subject matter is that hardly anyone cares about the music. I don't think Cooper is a good choice to portray Bernstein because Bernstein was a short guy, 5'7" at the most. Cooper is 6' 1.5". He just 6.5" taller, and it matters.
So…. I watched a lot of Bernstein videos on TH-cam before I watched this movie. And when I finally watched the movie, it felt like I was watching another TH-cam video with a lot of extra behind the scenes stuff. The Mahler 2 scene is almost exactly like the real thing on TH-cam, and so on. Bradley could have simply cut in the real footage to the acting. I liked it. Not loved it. Tedious sounds accurate.
That crap about the nose was a huge non issue. Prosthetics are routinely used to make the actor look like who they are portraying. Im glad he didn't bow to criticism. Leonard Nimoy didnt actually have pointy ears. Come on people! For musicians, it was disappointing. We wanted to see more about his music making. That's what made his famous. This film focused on what made him a predatory creep.
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I look at it knowing Bradly Cooper put his heart and soul in the movie. Acting was superb--it came from his heart. Carey Mulligan was wonderful also. Just a comment from me.
Days later I am still pondering this movie. Not only was it a visual feast and the actors portrayals were amazing, it really captured the angst and deep disappointments that happen to someone who marries a spouse who is struggling with their sexuality. Cancer is often a stress disease.
That's true ..as a oncologist I have sadly seen this.The patient especially women who going through divorce or marriage problems..same treatment and they are stage 2 but due to the external factors mostly uncaring , unsupportive spouse,money issues, children they just give up and their bodies give up.Its very sad cause they re miracles when they in stage 4 and I'm crying cause I feel a family member is dying..then suddenly they get better..this cases I notice they have support ,love prayer..it's amazing what the strength of love can do for human spirit and the body.
His wife I think buried a lot of anger and resentment, and that definitely fuels cancer, specifically breast cancer.
We are still discussing it.
this is not Cooper's directorial debut- that would be A Star Is Born.
Very good review and well stated. As a classical music lover and having many of Bernstein recordings, especially his Mahler symphonies, I was disappointed in that the focus was less on his music and more on his personal life.
The final scene of the last movement of Mahler’s Resurrection symphony was so moving it brought tears to my eyes. I guess this is what I was hoping the movie had more of.
For what it portrayed it was still a good movie with great acting.
I was definitely curious to hear what fans of his work would think of the movie. Thanks for commenting and for watching!
I would echo the first review comme ts..Cooper does as does rest of the astxcellent jobs’but more music might have made this an excellent film it’s ver title suggests as much..worth watching but for non musical feeling individuals I feel will find it abord..but the curiosity element could help lots of viewers to enjoy it
Bernstein's story is really not that interesting? What?! One of the most iconic musical figures of the last century. Ely Cathedral is a very important piece. And the end pulls things together with the argument between Felicia and Lenny at the Dakota apartment with the Macy's Day Parade in the background was amazing in so many ways.
I said "arguably," not "really." It's open to interpretation and worth talking about. I phrased it this way because there were definitely interesting parts of his story, but some of his experiences we see in this movie are pretty common. This is nowhere close to being the first story about someone having marital issues, following off the wagon, indulging in drugs, and then piecing things together.
True. so many supremely talented artists succumb to addiction and marital issues. No surprise. But. I do believe their relationship was very interesting, rich and unique. I think the effort is trying to show the depth and conflict in their relationship. My concept of the film is holding two conflicting realities. First, relational. As he holds the fluidity of his sexuality and his relationship with his wife and family. Secondly, the internal conflict he felt as an artist in expressing his unique gifts. I think he felt his composing was his greatest gift and his time conducting/teaching, etc led him away from that at times. If you are trying to wrap your head around his genius, realize that he is conducting the Mahler Symphony totally by memory without any score. The clips they have online of him conducting the exact piece that was represented in the film show no score in front of him.
@debradominiakrinck6699 Those are great points. There's definitely a lot more to his story that isn't explicitly said. I do think that there were some missed opportunities to delve deeper into his personal struggles with his sexuality and his marriage. Correct me if I'm wrong, but outside of his big argument with Felicia, I don't recall much of him really talking about his relations with men during his marriage, if at all.
Except that argument didn't come at the end. There were about 45 more minutes in the film. The third act definitely needed some editing down.
I enjoyed the second half . I felt the beginning was slow. I was bored in the 1st half
Great work man! Really insightful review and impressive editing. And I agree how this is a film for cinephiles and also how the end stagnates a bit after what is mostly a great film. I felt after the epic conducting climax of the Mahler piece, it was a little too drawn out on the jarring change in pace. I enjoyed the film otherwise though, and on a positive, I think both Bradley and Carey will definitely get nominated.
Honestly, I've never seen a movie review channel with less than 10,000 subs have video production this good, so keep going! Subscribed. :)
Hey, thanks a lot! I'm just starting out, so the subs and kind words are really appreciated.
I'm just not so interested in his personal life. I'm interested in what made him such a legend. Berenstein is revealed to be a self-centered man who clearly lacked restraint or consideration for the masochistic woman who married him.
I went to see this with a friend. I usually enjoy the more pretentious Oscar baity films whereas he likes cinema more as pure entertainment rather than a form of art. Yet, I loved the black and white bit and he walked out to get food cuz he was bored, then he came back for the color bit and loved it while I was constantly checking my watch.
I agree with your friend. The first part looked to me more like a cheap kitchen maid novel and I was constantly looking at my watch. With the scene with the Laudamus Te, when Felicia notices Bernstein holding hands with the man next to him, for me the movie started. And became interesting.
As far as I am concerned, they could just as well have left out the first 50 minutes.
good review, I loved it, the score got me, I grew up listening to his music. I agree, the end could be tighter.
Thanks for watching!
Good review
This film is a fail as a biopic. I still don't know who this man was only depend on the movie and didn't understand any of his motivations through his life.
Thanks for a well-written and very engaging review. I haven't seen the film and, as a fan of Bernstein's music, was hoping it was worth seeing. Your review is a subtle nudge, not an enthusiastic shove, so honestly I'm still not sure. Based on what you said, I'm curious if the film would've benefitted from a greater focus on Bernstein's music. Even if you thought his personal life couldn't carry an entire story, his music certainly could. Yes, I want a peek into the man and the marriage, but there's a reason this film is called "Maestro", and not "Hubby".
I like Bradley Cooper. Except the movie lacked flow so much. I had to turn it off.
felt more like a characterization of Bernstein.
So great movie review
Thanks for watching!
I love it.. Great direction,Amazing acting,fantastic cinematography.feel like going through their journey with them...only problem..it ended too soon...just wished it showed more of his career journey
Thanks for watching! Definitely agree. The lack of focus on his career felt like a missed opportunity.
@@MovieMuseOfficial in Steven Spielberg interview with Bradley Cooper,SS said he would have done a biopic and focus more on the career.Nothing against Bradley Cooper he had to act and direct but this is why SS is the Maestro .he's direction probably would have the marriage in the background or maybe included it on the same level
Bradley commented on that. He said there is so much videography of Lenny, and his accomplishments, that doing a standard Bioptic would’ve merely rehashed those moments. Through deeper research, he and his cowriter found the depth of a story with his relationship with Felicia.
@@saloonno1232 whatever it is I hope he wins Oscar.
Only downside, not a huge one, I thought it was a tad too long. Would have cut a bit towards the end.
This great romance in the beginning of the film? Wasn't it true that she knew he was gay before they got married? That they broke off their engagement and that she only circled back to him after her relationship with Richard Hart ended when he died? Was she more of a friend, supporter, confidante - and beard - than a wife? I don't know the answers but I've seen these suggested outside the film. This film was, uh, hazy on these points.
I felt like Cooper was kind of desperate with this performance, it was too much. The prosthetics also looked bad IMO. Carey Mulligan was great, agreed.
I think in the beginning though, he seemed quite upset, and I had to go read up on it to learn that he did want to live openly as a gay man and then decided to get married, after asking Aaron Copeland for advice, and he said to him ok I guess I'll marry her..
The film just had vague references to him and that handsome guy he is with being upset, but none of it is clear at all.
I felt like I was learning nothing about Bernstein. There could have been more about living in the closet for the sake of a career, maybe too close to home for Hollywood.
Or make it more about his career.
Imagine if at the end they'd shown the Berlin concert after the wall fell. Much more interesting.
The movie starts of well and you are correct about the good use of black and white - but the film or Cooper really is not interested in dealing with Bernstein gay romances they are push to the back ground- Matt Bomer's role should have been longer - it would have been interesting to see him at a later stage - its not a bad film but could have been better if it had been more honest - yes this was a story about a marriage but its also about a gay man
The film shouldhave been named "Felicia".
The third act was the most interesting part. Where were you?
Great movie!!!
You use the word that defines this movie to me. TIRESOME.
The analysis are interesting and add to the film. BC went in many directions trying to capture an interesting? Complex? Man! Biopics are always challenging because they see almost everything through the eyes of the people who have complex agendas - often benign but they muddy the water. Did BC want to tell us a love story? Of a man, woman their survival in closeted times? Or a creative, fun, loving dad and husband? Or the music? Or is this a movie about a wife who thinks she can cope with affairs - but can’t but also wants to remain in the centre of the whirlpool that was? LB.
As a boomer I was interested in his creative choices - but of course want to know the goss! Maestro barely touches anything maybe! How would I know? I also have a vision of LB in my head - so?????
I don't think BC fully understood Bernstein before making this attempt to accurately portray the maestro. His conducting of Mahler's 2nd wasn't as fun to watch because it was all out of sync. It was very awkward and Lenny would really have a big problem with it if he had seen it.
Pic lacks a POV.
This movie will go down in History as the movie where everybody is always smoking in every scene. I'm sure the tobacco industry loves this movie and probably threw some bucks to it's production budget. Oh, and maybe it should have been called «The maestro's wife».
Bernstein really did smoke that much.
The nose nonsense. He look like Lenny. loved the movie he would have been invigorating to have been with
Bradley should have just portrayed Herbert Von Karajan because the nose job made him look more like the other maestro. And he didn't spend time to emulate Bernstein conducting style. His part where he did Mahler's 2nd Symphony Finale looked quite awkward and very out of sync. I'm an avid Bernstein fanatic and the way this movie treated his real artistic genius on the podium turned me off as soon as Bradley started his own conducting. It's a shame because there are some moments where he did sound like the way Lenny spoke.
Liked it a lot, Carey was great but it will be a race between her and Lily Gladstone who was phenomenal.
Emma Stone is also up there for Poor Things.
Why do movies have to be so bloody long now, that puts me off watching them most of the time.
You're a child.
Perfect! Informative, intelligent and inspiring review :)
Some dull moments-but nothing as dull as your review.
Thanks for watching!
Can I suggest you get rid of the rotating chair for your on-camera hosts? It's quite distracting. Sitting still is always better.
Thanks for the feedback! I can see that being a bit distracting.
I was disappointed in the movie. Acting WAS excellent, but found transitions jarring and there was a distance from getting emotionally involved with the characters. Would have liked much more focus on his music. Didn't watch it till the end.
I agree. Got emotional whiplash from the quick editing, and it made it hard to empathize with the characters until the end.
@@darlene6531 Heard the end was better, didn't make it that far, LOL
no one gives a shit about the nose. that is pure media hype.
He looked hella perfect for Lenny.
how is it equally about felicia and lenny when feliica doesn't exist outside of her relationship with lenny?
I hated this movie! There was nothing in the storyline I could relate to. The style was wierd. Bradley Cooper was perfect however.
I love classical music and I revere Bernstein. Not gonna see this one. As one might have predicted, it's all about what I call "wee wee issues." I have ZERO interest in what Leonard Bernstein did with his wee wee. Will someone please make a movie about an artist that actually focuses on ART? If you don't consider the art compelling, why make the movie?
It’s more about Lenny, and his relationship with his Wife. It was beautiful, and moving.
I abandoned ship 20 minutes in. It's a disjointed patchwork film full that is hard to follow and at times made no sense. There were so many ways they could have told this story but for some reason, the chose the worst possible.
You sound like an infant. Bernstein's sexuality issues are actually culturally significant, as they no doubt fueled his work in some ways. He was a true bisexual and literally tried to live his life "everywhere all at once." The man was a multiverse.
Lenny, was a composer, a piano player, a musician, a conductor of two of the greatest orchestras in the world and an amazing teacher. I couldn’t agree more with the comment that the movie misses the mark by a thousand miles in tackling the actual artistic matters which is why I love Bernstein and pays no attention to his craft in rehearsals, particularly when preparing for a Mahler symphony. It merely makes a 3 minute climax with the finale of the 2nd symphony of Mahler “resurrection” and doesn’t even tell us why or how we got there. Coopers conducting is a mix between Willie Coyote on steroids and an epileptic attack and from the technical aspects there are several conducting mistakes where he asks for a downbeat when the piece clearly asks for an upbeat. Very disapointing. And I don’t believe for a second Coopers depiction of Lenny, not the voice or anything. And Lenny’s eyes were NOT blue. Shoddy work. Very shoddy. Cheers to Ms Mulligan.
You definitely need to avoid this film. It doesn't give you any real clue about why he was so revered and why he was a musical genius. It's very strange and a bit baffling.
I'm glad I don't depend on your reviews to decide what to watch. You say Bernstein's life was not that interesting? By the way the opening scene showed Leonard rising up and weeping a drape open then beating on another man's but in his bed. It started long before he married.
The key word there was "arguably."
She also agreed to marry him knowing he was gay. She wrote him a letter saying that, and saying she knew he would never change. The film is really weak on that side of it. She does say it was her choice but it's not made clear enough at all.
Wow, did you miss the mark on the 3rd act ... because of your oblivious, nearly blind grasp of the Mahler 2nd ... one of the greatest cinematic moments not only of this year, but most ...literally the filmic expression of a musical crescendo to a triumphant, symphonic climax - literally named, um, wait for it ... The Resurrection Symphony - the rebirth of Lenny's & Felicia's mutual love, adoration and commitment to one another, despite the emotional complexities, missteps and travails of their relationship. A bravura acting performance precisely when and where one crucially and precisely belonged - in a feat of spectacular, versatile, humbling, aesthetically and technically brilliant filmmaking. Good God - not a pun, but a nod to Mahler's sublime contemplation of The Divine - how could someone shrug at this masterpiece?? ... Especially compared to the now almost perpetual and regrettable bilious discharge of what passes for modern Hollywood movies ... Maestro is a glass of chilled champagne awash in a sea of tepid Tab.
... You mean the part of the movie that I literally called "big and epic" in this video?
@@MovieMuseOfficial I thought it deserved more love ... but I really appreciated your review.
Barely got 15 minutes in..was looking forward to it, too. 😡
Not a fan of this movie! Sorry!
Understandable. Thank you for watching!
One problem with this subject matter is that hardly anyone cares about the music. I don't think Cooper is a good choice to portray Bernstein because Bernstein was a short guy, 5'7" at the most. Cooper is 6' 1.5". He just 6.5" taller, and it matters.
So…. I watched a lot of Bernstein videos on TH-cam before I watched this movie. And when I finally watched the movie, it felt like I was watching another TH-cam video with a lot of extra behind the scenes stuff. The Mahler 2 scene is almost exactly like the real thing on TH-cam, and so on. Bradley could have simply cut in the real footage to the acting. I liked it. Not loved it. Tedious sounds accurate.
"Bernstein's story is arguably not that interesting"...are you referring to the screenplay here, or to Bernstein's actual life story?
That crap about the nose was a huge non issue. Prosthetics are routinely used to make the actor look like who they are portraying. Im glad he didn't bow to criticism. Leonard Nimoy didnt actually have pointy ears. Come on people! For musicians, it was disappointing. We wanted to see more about his music making. That's what made his famous. This film focused on what made him a predatory creep.
Overly dramatic Oscar-bait. Yawn.
The review also stagnated.
" Bernstein's story is arguably not that interesting" . Really? Possibly the US's greatest musical talent.
Bradley was unbelievably cringe couldn't get through it!
Poor things is much more provocative and entertaining
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UNlike its iconic effect in '39's 'The Wizard of Oz', switching between black & white & color filming is a cheap 'gimmick', that adds ZERO(0) 2 the film's time transition, depth &/or quality, that its actors & screenplay couldn't!!! 💣👎😫...A yawner by most critical consensus, direct 2 Netflix streaming... '🥱'!!!