Chilean director Pablo Larraín concludes his thematic trilogy of 20th century biopics of famous women – after ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ – with this soft, restrained drama ...

explains in the new BBC documentary Maria Callas: The Final Act. Callas, however, soon discovered that “when I sang, I was really loved”. At the age of 13, she left New York for Athens with ...

A production line is no place for a diva, but this is where Maria Callas ends up in new biopic Maria. The opera singer is played with magnetic splendour by Angelina Jolie, a casting choice this ...

Documentary film that tells the life story of legendary Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, completely in her own words. Show more Documentary film that tells the life story of legendary ...

In Maria, Angelina Jolie channels her own celebrity and understanding of fame, the crippling demands of beauty and age, and a ...

If you’ve ever heard Maria Callas sing, you’ve probably never ... prompting a hallucination involving a documentary film crew coming to interview her. She and the interviewer – named Mandrax ...

As with Jackie and Spencer, Maria is more comfortable inhabiting its protagonist’s sadness than it is interrogating it. The film cuts to documentary footage of the real Callas in its final moments: ...

In “A Complete Unknown”, a young Bob Dylan rocks up at the hospital that is treating Woody Guthrie, and instantly Guthrie and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Maria is Maria Callas, but you won’t find too many high notes in Pablo Larrain’s biopic. This is the third of his films about ...

There has, since Pablo Larraín’s study of Maria Callas premiered at Venice International Film Festival in August, been a critical cooling on the project. Does it not allow the great diva enough ...

Maria is a creative imagining and psychological portrait of Maria Callas, set in Paris, September 1977, during the final week of Callas' life. Maria follows the soprano as she negotiates her ...

Maria is the latest portrait of ... In lieu of an official memoir, Callas imagines a TV crew interviewing her for a documentary about her last days, led by a filmmaker named Mandrax (Kodi Smit ...