Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Biopic Is Fantastic
Maestro is a wonderful look at the composer that dives headfirst into his brilliant work and complicated inner life.
by David Sims
Nov 30, 2023
3 minutes
One early scene in Bradley Cooper’s delivers the kind of creaky exposition a viewer might expect from a major biographical film arriving in the thick of Oscar season. A young Leonard Bernstein (played by Cooper) is at lunch with one of his mentors, who suggests that he change his last name to something like “Burns” in order to seem less Jewish to a mainstream audience. It’s something that really happened, an example of the barriers that Bernstein had
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