Official Discussion - Maestro [SPOILERS]

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Summary:

This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

Director:

Bradley Cooper

Writers:

Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer

Cast:

• Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre
• Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein
• Matt Bomer as David Oppenheim
• Vincenzo Amato as Bruno Zirato
• Greg Hildreth as Isaac
• Michael Urie as Jerry Robbins
• Brian Klugman as Aaron Copland

Rotten Tomatoes: 80%

Metacritic: 77

VOD: Netflix

[u/lukaeber]

I'm a big fan of classical music and huge fan of Bernstein. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit, but feel it did a bit of disservice to Bernstein by focusing so much on his marriage and sex life and so little on his music, which was the true passion of his life. I understand the movie isn't a biopic and wasn't intended to comment on the music or Bernstein's artistic genius, but I don't know how you can really paint an authentic picture of the man when the music takes such a back seat during large stretches of the movie. At times, it seems as the the music was just his job, rather than an all consuming passion that almost assuredly impacted every human relationship he had.

I wonder if the story would have worked better if it was told from the POV of Felicia rather than Leonard.