Maestro’s First Trailer Sings With Promise For Bradley Cooper’s Directing Career

If there’s one thing the official trailer for «Maestro» makes clear to the uninitiated, it’s that Bernstein and Montealegre were both impossibly cool people. The pair’s connection is intense throughout the footage — making it clear that Cooper and Mulligan brought incredible chemistry onto the screen. Watching it, it’s hard not to envy the couple’s «orbit,» even if it teases tension and pressures head for the musical pair.

From the black-and-white scenes that depict the pair’s early days to the sepia-tinted glimpses of them after Bernstein’s rise to fame as a conductor, the scenes feel like a home movie mixed with a documentary of sorts. As this is a biopic, they of course are meant to feel this way and credit goes to Cooper for, so far, pulling off this ambitious endeavour. Based on what we’ve seen so far, it seems like this film will follow in the emotional terrain, loving attention to detail, and melancholy of «A Star Is Born.»

Maestro premieres in select theaters on November 22 and arrives on Netflix on December 20.