FILM
MARIA
Prima donna: Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas.
ANGELINA RETURNS TO THE SCREEN — AND TO THE OSCARS RACE
★★★★
OUT 10 JANUARY / CERT TBC / 124 MINS
DIRECTOR
Pablo Larraín
CAST
Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Stephen Ashfield
PLOT
1977. Famed opera singer Maria Callas (Jolie) lives quietly in her Paris apartment, mulling over a comeback. But her poor health — and her past — haunts her.
THERE ARE EFFECTIVELY three stories being told in Maria. The first is the surface-level plot, the life of Maria Callas, told through that life’s final few days: the legendarily charismatic American-born Greek singer who beguiled the opera world with her exceptional voice and her dramatic private life, a foundational myth of the definitional diva. It is also the story of Pablo