Very good/lots to enjoy
Synopsis
Andrew (Teller) is an aspiring drummer at a prestigious American conservatoire. Determined to impress his tyrannical conductor Fletcher (Simmons), he goes to extreme lengths, including ditching his girlfriend and playing after a car crash.
As a battle of wills breaks out between the two men, will his efforts be enough?
Review
Damien Chazelle's part-autobiographical drama has the zip of the jazz music he clearly loves entwined in its DNA.
J.K.Simmons (Peter Parker's editor in the Spiderman films) bristles with diabolical chutzpah as the musical mentor/army drill sergeant engaged in a battle of wills with Miles Teller who wants nothing more than to be the greatest jazz drummer the world has ever seen.
He just needs to survive Simmons' punishing rehearsals and exacting nature.
This is a gripping and entertaining dual, Simmons firing on all cylinders as the foul-mouthed, tyrannical bully pitted against Teller's furious determination.
Chazelle manages to keep up a pace as brisk as the score and keep the piece vibrantly cinematic throughout, difficult when he concentrates almost exclusively on two characters trying to get a drum played properly.
(Squeamish people, beware, Tellers sweats and bleeds to achieve perfection).
By Jason Day
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