PETER BRADSHAW reviews MAESTRO
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I very much enjoyed your review, and very much look forward to seeing the film! And I heretofore never heard the expression "nineteen to the dozen" so I looked it up; thank you for teaching me something new today :)
Thoroughly enjoyed Maestro! Carey Mulligan’s performance is outstanding! Takes a while to get going but once it does it’s very hard to stop!
Enjoy your reviews here and in the Guardian, but for God’s sake, learn how to pronounce names properly. It’s NOT Bernsteen!
I laughed quite a bit and cried a couple times - it was a ride. came away with less than I felt whilst watching it - but on reflection, it being a true and honest biopic of a life lived, and one I felt empathy towards, was enough. loved it. can't wait to rewatch on my sofa, with more popcorn than the curzon 'large' carton allows for, via Netflix!
Wonderful to hear of Bradley Cooper's triumph! The Best Actor race should be quite competitive instead of sentimental this Oscar/BAFTA season.
Good to know where to go for an intelligent review. I enjoyed the film - it's a very fair treatment of Bernstein - but also pretty good on the music.
Mr Bradshaw. The best element of your channel, for me, anyway, was that you would reply to most comments: it felt like we could have a real dialogue with a much respected film critic. One wonders why you have stopped doing this.
An intelligent reviewer who knows and enjoys the art of cinema. Bravo for him!
Thouroughly captivated when I saw this at NYFF. Cooper is great, but Carey Mulligan triumphs in this role.
I would reverse that. Carey does a nice job. But Cooper is a rockstar!
It's BernSTINE. Lenny was always adamant about how he pronounced his name.
...no, its Bernstein not Bernstien or Bernstine...
The Germanic differentiation between ein
and ien
@@robfardell9559 It's HIS name, and he wanted it pronounced how his family always did. That's why he always insisted on the stine pronunciation.
This is a film about Leonard Bernstein's dark side. He was indeed a great man, with an incredible light shining from within, a great musician, educator and popularizer of classical music, the ONLY truly great and immortal music, the true immortal accomplishment of the human race. To totally ignore the best side of THE MAESTRO Leonard Bernstein is a shameful manipulation. I cannot imagine who this ridiculous pastiche is aimed at - certainly not at people who love true music and its great champion, Lenny!
I posted a video about Leonard Bernstein on my RUclips channel that documents what he was really doing as a conductor. There's a phenomenon in the press where they pick 2 or 3 classical musicians and designate them as SACRED COWS. No matter what the sacred cows do on stage, the press refers to it as "the greatest." Bernstein was one of those sacred cows. The television appearances he did show him adding trumpets to the orchestra with Beethoven's symphonies and then when asked about Beethoven's ability to orchestrate, he says, " IT'S BAD! HE HAS THE TRUMPETS STICKING OUT AND THEY'RE DROWNING OUT EVERYBODY ELCE." He trashed the sound of Beethoven's symphony and his reputation. BAD
Toscanini and Szell had no problem giving us excellent performances of Beethoven the original orchestration. Lenny was a great teacher, composer of theatre music, but hardly one the great conductors. I think he knew it, and that's why he called so much attention to himself on the podium with his gestures.
Waiting to watch the film. Very good review.
I think the film looks beautiful. The acting is really good, Carey Mulligan is the heart of the movie. I still don´t know how I feel about the film, though...
BernSTEIN (stine) as per Leonard, himself. 🙄
The 'Jewface' issue didn't really worry me (though I expected it to). I was more concerned about the film's disconnectedness and self-indulgence. A lot of the time, it was hard to tell what was happening, or why a given scene was there at all (eg, Ely Cathedral). At a very nuts and bolts level, I think this was at least partly down to the overlapping dialog but also Cooper's nasal mumbling quite often being inaudible (I know, I need one of those dialog enhancing soundbars). That said, it looks and sounds magnificent. It's probably not a bad approximation of how maddening and exhausting he probably was to be around!
Felicia Montealegre was from Chile, not Costa Rica, please correct this, it's very important , the differences is vital
The real Leonard Bernstein actually sought out counseling and a "cure" for his homosexuality from more than one psychiatrist. I can't say whether including that fact in the film might have gotten it into trouble with modern audiences, but it might have helped us to understand that Lenny himself was also a victim of mid-century American homophobia and not simply a user taking advantage of a wife who did not fully understand what she was getting herself into.
Film cannot resist heterosexualizing their best heroes. Maestro is no exception.
Loved it. Too bad Lenny's musical accomplishments are mere footnotes in this film. The Mahler 2nd sequence is an absolute showstopper! I'm astounded at Bradley Cooper's ambition to take on this towering figure. No doubt should will stimulate younger generation's interest in classical music.
When I first saw the movie that's the way I felt. But I think we have to accept that this is a movie about their relationship. Always related to music, yes, but their relationship is the core.
@@mariocoelho9380very true. But I'm not so interested in his personal and private life. Actually liked him better before seeing the movie.
As much as I like the review why can't you, as an obviously intellectual person, at least pronounce his name correctly? BernstIEN - not BernstEEN. He was also my mentor and a wonderful guy so please pronounce it the way he did
Aside from Carey Mulligan's peeformance, there wasn't much that I enjoyed about this film. Some scènes seem pointless or too simplistic. The way Lenny's sexuality is portrayed superficially. The story feels too safe and too bidimensional.
Got halfway through Maestro on Netflix last night. Maybe I was very tired but it wasn't breaking the surface with me, I didn't feel deeply engaged. The score is fantastic l, the performances are solid and it's shot quite majestically but it just wasn't gripping me. Anyone else?
Films I enjoyed the most at the cinema in 23 were Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon (number one), Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse, Barbie and Wonka. Napoleon was a disappointingly damp squib
I’d say give it another shot. My brother started watching it and turned it off 20 or 25 minutes in, because, like you, he wasn’t feeling it. He resumed it the next day and ended up giving it a perfect score.
@@OldBluesChapterandVerse I still haven't watched the rest of it. Maybe I should tonight
@@rootsraf I’ve seen almost 50 films released in 2023, and it’s currently my #1.
Peter I think you are looming too close to the camera. It made me feel uncomfortable as a viewer. It will be far better if you sit further back in a chair and we can see some hand gestures and you look comfortable and relaxed. I suppose Barry Norman comes to mind ..
Interesting point re the furore of non-Jew playing Jew while sanguine 'nothing to see here' of non-gay playing gay! Selective outrage, it must be 2023!
This vlog needs a redo....pls.
Really grating to hear Bernstein's name mispronounced repeatedly.
BERNSTEIN PRONOUNCED BERNSTINE HE HATED ( STEEN )
uh, Peter, Lenny's name is pronounced "BernSTINE," not "Steen"...
Great film. Got Oscars written all over it this one.
Definitely a movie where you can see the acting.
😂I. Was. Dissatisfied. Not. Enough. About. The. Early. Years. Not. Enough. Of. Mahler's. Music. Which. Bernstein
Revitalized. Just. Didn't. Worfor. Me🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Who is Bernsteen? I thought the film was about Bernstein.
Great Review as always! Always liked Bradley Cooper very underrated in Place Beyond the Pines
It's Bernstein, NOT Bernstine! You watched the whole film and still got it wrong. Why should anyone take you seriously as a reviewer?
Whilst it was probably important for the remaining family to feel their mother, ( and the outwardly straight man that was their father )
was shown as a vital aspect in his life. Than just viewing her as... 'the woman who got her claws into a talented gay man'.
A man closeted by the period he lived through. Rather than how he saw her... as a necessary 'beard', a front...
in order to be taken seriously, or have any kind of a career at all.
Some humans will wear any mask society dictates in order to succeed, that's what 'personal drive' is all about.
You have it inside yourself... to do whatever it takes to succeed. That's a tough story to tell, to make and to sell. For no one wants to hear it.
He was bipolar which was exacerbated by his ingesting Dexedrine
I enjoyed the movie a great deal and I thought tje acting was wonderful.
Excuse me, why can't you pronounce his name correctly? Or are you just trying to be irritating? Stein... Bern... stein. Coming with honors. Yea...............!
not insightful... snarky.... bad
Pretty nauseating, much like reading The Guardian.
nope
For goodness sakes, please pronounce Bernstein correctly...it's very painful to listen to your review as you incorrectly and repeatedly mis-pronounce "Stein." The origin is clearly German...meaning "stone" and pronounced STINE...not STEEN! Bernstein literally means: "Burnt Stone" in German.
As a German I must say it really doesn't mean that. "Bernstein" as a whole word in fact means "amber", while, yes, Stein means stone. To burn would be "brennen", burnt is "verbrannt" or "gebrannt".
The inability (or resistance) to correctly pronounce the title role’s name, detracts from the credibility of the review. Please try to research more thoroughly in future vlogs. Thank you.
He also says "anti-seemite"
British darlin’
So glad you have so little to worry about...in a world filled with death and destruction! Hope you manage to sleep tonight!!!
@@aboukirman3508 It’s amazing how many reviewers mispronounce Bernstein’s name.
Maybe incompetence is okay with you, but to me and many others it ruins the review and others reviews.
@@mikepanick9362 Sad fuck!!!😂😂😂
Poor review.
Cooper puts on a " jewish" nose, unescessary, but could not put contact lenses to change his eye color, that was shocking to me, It is as if he was hoping that noone would remember what Leonard Bernstein looked like. Also, in keeping with the reductionist view of this genius, the movie opens with gay sex scenes, reducing the genius of the music and the man to an ordinary, lurid character.... Awful movie.