Bradley Cooper’s second film Maestro, like his 2018 debut A Star Is Born, tells the story of a passionate but turbulent romance conducted in the floodlight glare of entertainment-industry fame. Maestro also resembles A Star Is Born in that Cooper again directs himself as one half of the famous, feuding couple. But rather than a reinvention of a much-readapted Hollywood fable, Maestro is a cinematic imagining of a real-life love story: the 26-year marriage of the legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein to the actor Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan).
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