“Pablo Larraín’s fact-based drama, starring Angelina Jolie as opera diva Maria Callas, is witty and beautiful, but “this Callas is an icon rather than a human being”, and some scenes are “less opera than soap opera”.
“Pablo Larraín seems to be fixated on the 20th Century’s most glamorous and wealthy women. The Chilean director’s fact-based dramas include Jackie (2016), which starred Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Spencer (2021), which starred Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana.
“Now he’s completed his trilogy with Maria, in which Angelina Jolie plays one of history’s most celebrated opera sopranos, Maria Callas.”
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