I knew there was something really off about this movie from the trailers, I extrapolate really well from trailers - annoyingly so at times - and I could see elements of what you've just conveyed. Between that, and the other reviews I've read, I decided just to avoid.
Indeed, I am unsure what the director's point was. He said in an interview "I’d been thinking about her for a long, long time, probably easily 10 years before the studio came to me and said, “Would you be interested in doing something about a conductor?” And that’s the only reason that she became a conductor. I had someplace to put her."
Odd. I don't believe a woman would act just like a man in this position. She'd probably never get to hold that position, and if she did she would have to use a whole different set of wiles and power plays on her way up than a man would, so she'd likely behave quite differently, even if she was a megalomaniac.
I found the trailers irritating, and the reviews unappealing, so will avoid.
I knew there was something really off about this movie from the trailers, I extrapolate really well from trailers - annoyingly so at times - and I could see elements of what you've just conveyed. Between that, and the other reviews I've read, I decided just to avoid.
Indeed, I am unsure what the director's point was. He said in an interview "I’d been thinking about her for a long, long time, probably easily 10 years before the studio came to me and said, “Would you be interested in doing something about a conductor?” And that’s the only reason that she became a conductor. I had someplace to put her."
Odd. I don't believe a woman would act just like a man in this position. She'd probably never get to hold that position, and if she did she would have to use a whole different set of wiles and power plays on her way up than a man would, so she'd likely behave quite differently, even if she was a megalomaniac.
I found the trailers irritating, and the reviews unappealing, so will avoid.
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Apparently, you have to be a jerk to succeed in classical music...