Maestro(s)

I appreciate Pierre Arditi's personnality and acting. So I went to see this movie. It was a mistake.

It was as bad as nowaday's french movies go. Minimally interesting story. Lame acting, actors don't even seem interested in what they play. Nothing remarkable in the dialogs or the plot. Nothing surprising or new in the filming department.

I can't tell if the acting was convincing for a conductor. But that's not in the least meaningful for the public at large.

Typical french movie, as bad and unremarkable as french movies have become for decades. Not worth the price of the ticket or the subsidies they get from our taxes.

Catering to someone's interests is the most direct way for a son to catch his father's attention. If there's a mutual understanding and discernment about the same matters, then collaboration becomes the best blessing for both on the paths they're taking. Whenever it's a movie about music, it always gets me immersed in the rhythm of the notes. Especially in this film where it's mostly symphony music, it highlights how conducting is like being a chef. With the same ingredients, the way you present them shows your personal style. Just like father and son conductors, they must have their own distinct styles. So, "Maestro," this movie, maybe it's giving me a sense of appreciating each other within the same field.

No pun intended - I just read that some have issues with the music in this. I cannot speak to this. It did sound good to my ears to be honest, but what do I know? As in I am not an expert to tell you if you can like this or not. But even those having issues with the music, agree that the acting is really good.

And isn't that what we mostly look forward to? I mean visually speaking it is what we mostly get out of a movie. Yes the sound is important too - even more so in a movie like this. Add to that the father son story and you have quite the interesting premise to keep you happy until the end ... well sort of.

Decent movie, if you do not expect too much I reckon.

I don't know the original story but I found this movie enjoyable and heartwarming. One critic here may be right that a real conductor should have improved the actors performance but I could relate to the father-son-conflict as well as to the relationship between a conductor and his love interest in his first violin. Well played, well shot, a small European movie that obviously hasn't made it's way into our movies, but thanks to streaming came to my attention.

Hoping the movie finds it's audience here. There should be place for small movies between all these Deadpool, Wolverines and Jokers and other blockbusters.

I'll already say I'm personally a conductor myself and it's always interesting to see musical movies.

Apart from the fact the film is quite well acted, Arditi as always is a great actor, and the rest do a pretty good job, the story is of course an eternal question of father and son relation, especially in the same domain, but also do we see our "success" in our career as our prime source for our happiness.

As a conductor it was painful to watch. Nothing made much sense, the two main actors were conducting extremely badly, I hope this is not the standards of La Scala. Lol Their movements were quite painful to watch.

Orchestras badly seated, the talking during the rehearsal is bad, little details like the podium on the last concert is not a real one, when someone says "In bocca al lupo" you're not suppose to repeat it but to say "crepi"... It's extremely bad luck otherwise. Every conductor knows that. The agent hitting the high notes of the piano in the green room but for some reasons she hits the lowest notes on it....

Anyway, more research about this and a bit more effort would be nice. It's not THAT hard to make someone look like a real conductor and things to look real.

But all in all as a movie, it was quite ok. 5 stars.