Yes, good acting, great music but absolutely no story. At all. Apart from his bisexuality which dominated the script.
Bradley Cooper was too greedy in writing, directing and starring. What did he write? Not much of a story. I'd like to have seen Lenny's childhood explicated, more meat on the bare bones offered here.
Also, why so little on West Side Story - one brief extract and not the huge explosive hit it was at the time. The adulation which followed.
The teasing bits of his Missa were beautiful and far too much of his Mahler, though lovely, had little bearing on the overall story.
Brad's prosthetic nose was distracting in that it gave a nasal whiny tone to his dialogue. And he might have done better with another actor.
Carey Mulligan, as always was amazing in her role but again, underplayed the distress she must have felt at his infidelity/. At one point he left her for a young (male) lover and only returned when she was diagnosed with cancer. (in her breast, from a broken heart? Who knows)
The great man of music was not served well here, far too shallow a treatment of his genius.
5/10.
Bradley Cooper was too greedy in writing, directing and starring. What did he write? Not much of a story. I'd like to have seen Lenny's childhood explicated, more meat on the bare bones offered here.
Also, why so little on West Side Story - one brief extract and not the huge explosive hit it was at the time. The adulation which followed.
The teasing bits of his Missa were beautiful and far too much of his Mahler, though lovely, had little bearing on the overall story.
Brad's prosthetic nose was distracting in that it gave a nasal whiny tone to his dialogue. And he might have done better with another actor.
Carey Mulligan, as always was amazing in her role but again, underplayed the distress she must have felt at his infidelity/. At one point he left her for a young (male) lover and only returned when she was diagnosed with cancer. (in her breast, from a broken heart? Who knows)
The great man of music was not served well here, far too shallow a treatment of his genius.
5/10.