'The Maestro': Film Review
'The Maestro': Film Review The earnest but very small pic will play well with film-score fans, though most in that area will need for a larger concentrate (or any, really) on their personalities. (Although we might assume he is a combination, Herst was a real person, and first time screenwriter C.V. Herst composed the pic.) Ahead of the war, he had a hit song and a promising profession; as the movie tells the narrative, he returned in the war bent on turning promise to some grander life. With his talk of G.I. Bill capital, Herst belongs to Los Angeles using a monkish dedication to his craft. He rents a mattress at a boarding house filled with comparable aspiring musicians -- their caricaturish landlady, Joelle Sechaud's Mrs. Stella, places them all in 1 area and does not even provide a usable tub -- and starts course with Castelnuovo-Tedesco. The aging is well attached (Igor Stravinsky comes around to find day-drunk in 1 scene) and admired because of their ability to produc...