Right off the bat, the new Bradley Cooper film, “Maestro”, grabs you.
The film is beautifully and artfully photographed (Matthew Libatique, cinematographer) and is acted with great passion. Bradley Cooper, who wrote, directed and starred in this highly anticipated movie, wanted to get into the heart of the conductor, thought by many to be the greatest musician of the 20th century., and he did so resoundingly.
Cooper plays Bernstein with an uncanny sense of his mannerisms and vocal style. Much has been written about his prosthetic nose, but this, to me, is nonsense. He looks just like Bernstein and sounds like him too. He threw himself into the part, showing Bernstein’s explosive energy and commitment to music and to people.
