Maria Callas, the world’s greatest opera singer, lives out the final days of her life in 1970s Paris as she grapples with her identity and her life. Angelina Jolie and director Pablo Larraín discuss how they were brought together by the heartbreaking true story of world-famous opera singer Maria Callas. Refusing to be dubbed and wanting to sing on her own, Angelina Jolie took seven months of opera lessons to prepare for her role. An estimated 90 to 95 percent of Callas’s original recordings were used for scenes set during Callas’s heyday, and Jolie lip-synched the songs. However, Jolie’s singing takes center stage during the film’s final act. When Angelina Jolie lip-syncs to Maria Callas’ original recordings throughout the film, her mouth movements are out of sync with the sound. Maria Callas: Save me a table at a café where the waiters know who I am. I feel like adoring.. Mentioned in Close-Up: Why do We Need the Venice Film Festival? (2024). Otello, act 4: “Ave Maria” (Desdemona)Performed by Maria Callas, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du ConservatoireConductor: Nicola RescignoAuthor: Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo BoitoWarner Classics Edition, (p) 1964 Parlophone Records LimitedRemastered 2014 Parlophone Records LimitedCourtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company. I have to say that director Pablo Larrain’s 2024 entry into his iconic trilogy about 20th-century women was a disappointment. It starts with the casting, as Angelina Jolie may be too iconic to play the ultimate diva Maria Callas, the least remembered of the trio, the other two being Jackie (2016) and Diana in Spencer (2021). Jolie conveys the necessary confidence to carry off the regal image of the world’s greatest opera singer, but physically she looks too skeletal to convincingly emulate the more solid persona Callas struck. Written by Steven Knight, the bleak, fairly long film covers the last week of Callas’s life in Paris in 1977, a fictional story with inevitable flashbacks that builds like a ghost story. All the production elements, like the polished cinematography and set details, are impressively handled, but Larrain’s creative choices are more questionable, like the hallucinatory images of choirs of people singing to her in public. There’s an ambiguous role for a spy (vaguely played by Kodi Smit-McPhee) with the same name as her prescription medication, who forces her to confront her heritage. Some flashbacks hint at more intriguing elements of her story, such as her rather shady relationship with Aristotle Onassis, her traumatic encounters with Nazis as a child, and a compelling conversation with JFK (played by Caspar Phillipson, cast in the same, somewhat minor role in “Jackie”). Her secluded life is only interrupted by two devoted servants, played movingly by Pierfrancesco Favina and Alba Rohrwacher. Still, Jolie’s star turns in a performance worthy of her unique talent for conveying hubris and vulnerability at nearly the same time. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the biggest TV and streaming releases this month. Check out our December calendar for more!
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