“Orchestra Girl”: an ordinary movie that wins “Oscar”

Is “the only girl in the orchestra” (2023, 35 minutes), for American Molly O’Brien, “Oscar”, deserves the best short documentary, at the 97th party of the “Magistical Arts Academy and Sciences Academy” awards (March 2, 2025)?

His watching on the American platform “Netflix” (displayed since December 4, 2024), it is very normal, despite its lighting aspects of the biography of Orine Operation (1935), the cupboard, and the daughter of Hollywood actors George Operen and Margaret Churchill, the producer of the producer and the director Moussi, who (Orn) becomes, in 1966, the first woman, the first woman Music in the “Flashrmon Orchestra in New York”, thanks to the American Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the band’s commander, composer, pianist, teacher and music composer.

There are no visual, no cultural manufacturing, nor cinematic innovations, but a dialogue with the musician, ancient shots (photographs and visual records), and a seamless narration, but she offers the personality of a solid woman who wants to humble in her life and professional circuits, so she turns to teaching the playing of combination after her retirement from the division in 2021. For her desire to play with other musicians: “I had no ambition to become a single player, or the like. I would like to be in the background.” She also says: “I prefer to be a secret artist, to be well -known.” Then: “I am an artist in my mind, I do not want propaganda.”

The absence of accents, manufacturing and innovations is met by a correct choice for clips from a few films for her parents, and the most prominent “The Big Trial” (1930 Production) by Raul Walsh. A brief dialogue between Birk (John Wayne) and Ruth (Margaret Churchill) later on a story narrated by the defendant about the beginnings of her affiliation with a group, all its members are men, Molly Operen takes from the statements of most of them that they care about her (carrying her bag, reserving a seat for her in the bus, etc.), and laughs sarcastically because the reality is completely contrary to this. “It is worth not to ride the horse here alone, away from the train,” says Bryk.

A suitable choice for the beginnings of male cruelty, the intensity of the social, cultural and life moment in America, the 1960s. This is despite the fact that Bernstein sees something similar to the miracle, and he attached it to its band.

No compared to other films, the prize candidate, for not watching it. However, the winning workman, who is busy with a purely traditional professional craftsmanship, is not a different possession, renewal or different from the familiar, cinematic first and primarily. A film that sees, but it remains an ordinary movie, only watched, and it gives those who are not aware of some of the biography of a woman, a player and a teacher. As for the award, it remains an unimportant detail, even though a movie like this is not worthy of it.