Score: 2
Director: Bradley Cooper
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Maya Hawke, Matt Bomer
Year: 2023
Premiere: December 6, 2023
The controversy involving ‘Maestro’ over the latex nose that Bradley Cooper wore throughout filming is stupid and, yes, it symbolizes the attitude that both the film, the director and the protagonist have towards their object of study, Leonard Bernstein. Cooper’s interpretation is initially more concerned with bringing the famous musician to life than actual life. a striking imitation in the style of a garish costume or, in effect, a gigantic nose prosthetic.
The point, it seems, is not to say anything particularly revealing about the musician, but to ensure that the audience pays attention to every studied movement of the performer, every drop of sweat flowing from him, every scene in which he performs. calculated overreach to persuade whoever it touches It’s time to give him an Oscar.
Similarly, by focusing on Bernstein’s stormy emotional union with Felicia Montealegre, the film as a whole attempts to focus our attention both on his precision in editing shots and recreating periods and on his official filigree catalogue. and thus hide what remains Beneath that false hair: a selection of some of the most commonplace conventions of biographical cinema, Among them is the theory that geniuses should be forgiven for almost everything.
This type of thing is also very popular among prize givers.