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[Opens Oct. 21 in theaters.] Awesome acting dominates Todd Field's captivating, award-winning, multilayered, poignant, well-written, moving, star-dotted (Mark Strong, Julian Glover, and Adam Gopnik), 153-minute psychological film that follows a gay, coldhearted, intimidating, pretentious, insomnia-plagued, power-wielding, EGOT-winning, famous conductor and composer (Cate Blanchett) of a German orchestra in Berlin at the pinnacle of her career who has an adopted, bullied Syrian daughter (Mila Bogojevic) with her live-in violinist/concertmaster wife (Nina Hoss) and treats most everyone poorly, including her anxiety-prone assistant (Noémie Merlant), an aging assistant conductor (Allan Corduner), and a Juilliard student (Zethphan Smith-Gneist), fall from grace as she rehearses Mahler's Fifth Symphony with the musicians while being suspected of contributing to the suicide of her protégé conductor (Sylvia Flote) and showing favoritism to a Russian cellist (Sophie Kauer).
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