With 'Maria,' filmmaker Pablo Larraín gives Maria Callas the biopic treatment featuring a luminous Angelina Jolie. Read Entertainment Weekly's review.
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The film is more elegiac tone poem than structured narrative, echoing Maria's dreamlike trance induced by her abuse of medication and nostalgia for her glory days. Larraín exquisitely composes every image, placing the fragile figure of Maria in jewel box settings that are framed with the lush care of a Rococo painting.The spectacle and grandeur of the opera emanate from every frame, emphasizing Maria's vulnerability within cavernous spaces.
But it is Jolie's ability to depict a woman owning everything she is that makes her performance truly sing. After enduring the cruelty of her mother and controlling men, Maria, at the end of her life, is finally saying her own thoughts out loud. It's a remarkable portrait of a woman reckoning with herself, even as her body fails her.
All of the story floats behind a dreamy veil . Thus, it's never clear when we're witnessing something real or something imagined. But as Maria tells her butler, it's none of our business what's real and what's not. All that matters is giving ourselves over to the music, much like an audience must do at an opera.Callas is a thorny figure, a woman saddled with hang-ups and illness, who earned the reputation of being a diva for having the audacity to speak up for herself.
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