A Star is Born (15)
Drama
Raitng: 4/5 - very good lots to enjoy
Director: Bradley Cooper.
Synopsis
Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) is a world famous rock singer but whose career is perched to crash-land. Years of loud music without using ear defenders is rendering him increasingly deaf and a decade of hard drinking and drug taking is slowly killing him from the inside out.
One boozy night, he happens upon a drag review bar, one in which talented female singer Ally (Lady GaGa) frequently takes part. Transfixed, Maine sweeps her off her feet and gives her a footing on the musical fame ladder.
She soon catapults to stardom alongside hims, but Jack’s hedonistic binges and jealousy consume him and threaten their love as she increasingly goes solo. Will love be enough to keep them together as the bright lights of fame get ever brighter?
Review, by Jason Day (@Reelreviewer)
Prancing, Princess of pap-pop Lady Gaga takes a step into the firmament of acting success by assuming the lead role in this remake of umpteen remakes about an ingenue star whose fame eclipses that of the man who discovered her.
Treading in the footsteps of Hollywood legends Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand was never going to be easy, but Gaga manages to hold her own, thanks to co-writer/director Bradley Cooper's firm and fair hold on the story when the two share intimate, stunning moments together.
Gaga has much confidence and is superb, supported during this essentially hackneyed stardom-seeking story by a fine cast. Cooper, in particular, helps her to sparkle in their scenes together.
Despite sections of the film slipping into egregious lapses of self-loving, first-time director Cooper scrabbles together the elements of a fine romance and fashions an emotionally taxing film.
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Cast & credits
2hr 15mins (135 mins). Live Nation Productions/MGM/Peters Entertainment/Gerber Pictures/Joint Effort/Malpaso Productions/Thunder Road Pictures. (15)
Producers: Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor, Todd Phillips.
Writers: Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will fetters.
Camera: Matthew Libatique.
Sets: Karen Murphy.
Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott, Dave Chappelle, Anthony Ramos, Bonnie Somerville, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Harney, D.J. ‘Shangela’ Pierce, William Belli.
Pic: Warner Bros
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