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With Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan at the helm, Maestro keep Hollywood’s biopic trend alive and well: Directed by (and starring) Cooper, the film looks at the life of late American conductor, composer, and pianist Leonard Bernstein.

The movie delves into the dark side of fame and success and how it affected the conductor extraordinaire. The son of Jewish-Russian immigrants, he evaded the family hair business, the Samuel J. Bernstein Hair Company, and chose the art of being a conductor. Bernstein made his name by conducting, composing, and contributing to ballet, opera, and Broadway productions, creating some of the modern timeless pieces we know and love today. The film also shifts its focus on the relationship with his wife — and other intimate relationships on the side — with the occasional outbreak of songs.

The ensemble cast says enough about what to expect: Aside from Cooper, we have Mulligan as his wife Felicia Montealegre, Matt Bomer as David Oppenheim, Maya Hawke as Leonard and Felicia’s daughter Jamie Bernstein, and Josh Hamilton as John Jonas Gruen.

It already secured a lot of favorable reviews, calling for Cooper to continue his directing streak. Cooper also manifested “The most powerful use of music …” in his rendition of Bernstein conducting Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 2 “with a fervor that is exultant,” and illustrated his ability to completely immerse himself into the character.

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