Carey Mulligan rightfully gets top billing in 'Maestro' opposite actor and director Bradley Cooper
Maestro, starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, earns 3.5 stars from Us Weekly movie critic Mara Reinstein.’s top billing in the credits. Um, isn’t this a biopic about music man extraordinaire Leonard Bernstein?! How is Cooper listed second?! In a film called
Cooper then quickly traces his trajectory via crisp black-and-white cinematography. Bernstein and Montealagre, an elegant Chilean émigré and actress, meet at a smoky house party in New York City and are instantly enamored of each other’s quick wit and creative talent. They fall into bed and share intimate secrets.
Though diminutive in size, Montealagre is capable of cutting Bernstein down with an insult so brutal that the audience inside NYFF press screening gasped. By contrast, her husband exudes a joie de vivre in every word and movement. In the 1970s, he snorts cocaine with gusto. In the 1980s, despite wrinkles and a mop of messy white hair, he grinds in a nightclub like a man half his age.
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