36/43
Maria Callas’s longtime companion Aristotle Onassis later married former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy
Synopsis
Maria Callas, the world’s greatest opera singer, lives out the final days of her life in 1970s Paris as she confronts her identity and life. Angelina Jolie and director Pablo Larraín discuss how they connected to the true and moving story of world-renowned opera singer Maria Callas. Kennedy was the subject of a previous Pablo Larraín biopic, 2016’s “Jackie,” starring Natalie Portman in the title role.
I’m in the mood for flattery
Maria Callas: Reserve a table for me in a café where the waiters know who I am. Referenced in Close-Up: Why Do We Need the Venice Film Festival? (2024).
The movie is pretty bad
Jolie imitated Callas’s speech perfectly, but she’s also an occasionally broke character. Maria was portrayed as cold, mean, and even mentally unstable. There is a lot of very questionable information that was presented as fact.
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The entire film focuses on the last week of her life, and we only get a few glimpses into her past (mostly past performances) that don’t really tell us anything about her life. There was much, much, much more to Maria Callas than what is shown in the film, and I honestly don’t think she would have liked this movie. It shows that whoever made this film knows nothing about her or opera, otherwise they wouldn’t have created so many silly scenes.