A cute and tacky fairy tale

Rating: 7/10 (15 October 2018)

"A star is born" is a fairy tale. A fairy tale a bit more modern and with a much more interesting ending than the traditional ones, but a story that does not differ much from that Cinderellas we know.
Like every fairy tale, It's cheesy. And it goes back to the easy crying and the programmed tears to leave at certain points of the film to bring to the viewer the feeling of emotion, enchantment and tightness in the heart.
Everything has its value, but if you do not fall into the fairy tale, there is not much to get out of the movie other than to consider it cute. After all, it's cute to see a story of overcoming and love between two handsome and talented young people, but each with its unresolved problems and frustrations in therapy.
On one side we have Jackson Maine lived with talent by a Bradley Cooper emulating Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (2009). Maine is a famous singer who has serious drinking problems, an inheritance of the alcoholic father who died when he was 13 years old.
On the other we have Ally lived by a Lady Gaga who performs satisfactorily as an actress. Ally is an aspiring singer with a rare talent but always rejected by the industry for her asymmetrical appearance.
When these two souls meet at a drag queens bar, an improbable encounter was not Maine's addiction to alcohol, there's a crack, a phosphorus scrawl that will bring two unique talents together to complement each other in their own way.
Maine brings light to Ally's career, spear to the crowd, while he plunges himself deep into the darkness of alcohol in a process that seems irreversible. Their trajectory is of opposites, ascending and descending, which cross each other in the happiest moment of the couple, but create friction when both follow opposite paths. Ally, more and more a pop star, Maine increasingly a decadent, depressed and impaired singer.
But it's a fairy tale. The love between them is very strong. Especially Ally, who never feels the career impaired even in the most embarrassing moments of it caused by him. All Ally wants is to do Jack the same thing he did for her while she was a mere restaurant clerk who used to be a singer in corner bars. Such is love. Although things may not always turn out like the dream.
"A star is born" is the third remake of the version originally released in 1937 and starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. The difference for the original movie is the setting. There, it was the movie industry here, that of music. But the plot is the same.
The current movie has good songs, and at the very least, it must receive Oscar nominations for the musical categories. The presence of Lady Gaga singing on the screen gives an even greater weight, since she is not an actress struggling to sing, but someone whose talent in this art is more than recognized. These are the scenes in which, of course, she is more at ease. Although that innocent look of one who is not understanding what goes on in life but is struggling to act has worked very well for her role. On the whole, Gaga is doing well.
As there are several elements that Oscar loves as a story of overcoming, drama, love and tragedy, I would not be surprised if "A star is born" also earn some Oscar nominations in other categories. However, it's a movie that does not go beyond the cute little thing done right.