Maestro review: Bradley Cooper’s Bernstein film is nicely affectionate – fake nose and all
by Geoffrey Macnab
Dec 19, 2023
4 minutes
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Bradley Cooper enjoyed a monster critical and commercial hit with 2018’s A Star is Born, which he directed and starred in, playing an alcoholic country and western crooner, opposite Lady Gaga. How on earth, observers wondered, was he going to trump that success? Five years on, Cooper is directing and playing the lead in another fine music-based project, albeit one very different in tone. Maestro is a biopic of American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, the man who brought us West Side Story and On the Town.
The arrives trailing controversy in its wake. Cooper, a non-Jewish actor, has been
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