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09.04.2022 - 00:47 / deadline.com
Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has a conductor captured the imagination of the American public quite like Gustavo Dudamel.
The Venezuelan-born phenom with the flashing baton and flying curls has been featured on 60 Minutes, profiled in The New Yorker, inspired a TV series (Mozart in the Jungle), and even been animated on The Simpsons (the surest sign of broad cultural penetration). The music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and music director of the Paris Opera is the subject of a new documentary, ¡Viva Maestro!, opening today in New York (Film Forum) and L.A. (The Landmark Westside Pavilion).
“This is a very, very rare cat — very, very special musician,” declares director Ted Braun. “It’s the quality of his music-making and that emotional vitality and transparency that he brings. It’s just a magnet for musicians all over the world, from every walk of life and every genre and stripe and that then gets bounced out to audiences. He’s exceptional that way. I think Bernstein is absolutely the last figure to have that kind of reach and range of popularity.”
The documentary captures Dudamel’s extraordinary ability to communicate musical ideas to an orchestra, be it the L.A. Phil, the Simón Bolívar Symphony in his native Venezuela, or to young classical musicians around the world. His explanation, for instance, of what Beethoven is going for in the 5th and 9th symphonies becomes so clear and compelling that even a non-musician can absorb it.
“He has the capacity to express a feeling, a kind of target, an emotional bullseye… for the musicians, and to express that in a way that cuts through all the technicalities and really reaches any listener,” Braun observes. “There’s a wonderful moment in the film where
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Viva Maestro, a documentary starring the charismatic music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, opened on a high note taking in $14,310 on two screens — Film Forum/NYC and The Landmark/LA. That’s a PTA of $7,155 for the film directed by Ted Braun (Darfur Now, Betting on Zero) and presented by Greenwich Entertainment and Participant Media. It expands to 40+ theaters next weekend.
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