Today, in competition at the Festival, the biopic on Leonard Bernstein, ‘Maestro’, one of the most awaited films of the Festival, will be presented. Unfortunately its protagonist and director, Bradley Cooper, due to the strike of actors and screenwriters in the United States will not be on the Lido. Produced and released on Netflix later this year, the film is a biopic about one of the best-known composers and conductors of all time, who died in 1990. The American conductor conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and he is remembered for his soundtrack to ‘West Side Story’, a huge Broadway hit. With ‘Maestro’, in the running for the Golden Lion, Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”, “Very Bad Trip”) examines the troubled relationship between Leonard Bernstein and his wife, played by Carey Mulligan. In the United States, the film was preceded by controversy: Bradley Cooper’s decision to wear a prosthetic nose in the film to play Leonard Bernstein, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, was seen by some as a way to fuel stereotypes about Jews. This choice has reignited the Anglo-Saxon debate on the choice of non-Jewish actors to play Jewish characters, which some equate to blackface, a practice long used by white actors, who blackened their faces to play black roles. In mid-August, the composer’s three sons came to the actor’s defense, saying they “completely agree” with his decision to “use a trick to amplify his resemblance” to their father.
2023-09-02 16:04:19
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