Maria Callas, critic: Angelina Jolie materializes the myth of a painful woman

Reaches cinemas Maria CallasNew Chilean film Pablo Larrain (NerudaIN Club) On this occasion, the director completes his triptych about women who began in 2016 with Jackie and continued in 2021 with SpencerThe field now he cares no less than Angelina Jolie To go out on the screen in the last days of the famous opera singer. The psychological and fabulous drama, with which you can extol the legend of the most outstanding soprano of the 20th century.

IN Maria CallasThe main character lives in his mansion in Paris, refugees of the public sphere. Surprising the world for years and years, functioning behind a function, his mind now plays bad passages. He lost his great voice, and medicines give him stability, but at the same time leaves him. In this Parisian context of the late 1970s, the film examines its memoirs and exposes the dramas and tragedies of its stormy life.

Angelina Jolie will blind

Maria Callas This is, first of all, a new exercise Pablo Larrain To approach women suffering from myths. The director goes to an atypical biographical film that seeks to tell about the tragedy of one of those women who went down in history. This has already happened to Jackiedepicting in appearance Natalie Portman Life of a woman John F. Kennedy In days after the murder of this. He did it even more successful in Spencerwhere impressive Kristen Stewart He melted in the ghost Lady Dee Immediately before separation from the prince Carlos of EnglandField

Now the director is found for the third time, when the actress is on top. Maria Callas This is one of the most important opera operations over the past 100 years. That’s why, Larraín I needed some of the guarantees that could mix with this painful diva. Angelina Jolie This is the perfect choice. The actress blinds in one of the most difficult and delicate documents of her career. Each word, every gesture, every movement conveys the pain of the strength of nature, which notes that it comes out.

A Closes He knows that his glory has already passed. But in the film, like any fighting spirit, not asking for help, he is worried against him. He knows that his soul is still there, hidden in dozens and dozens of layers of pain, injuries and melancholy. Jolie This is reflected with the skill and passion that is an unshakable claw. His performance is imperial, and although he finally did not join the Oscar of 2025, he would have earned a hole among the nominees. This is one of the documents of the year.

Clish film

What did most of the awards get Jolie This is the film itself. Although the approach Larraín O Maria Callas Interestingly, does not avoid getting into a permanent cliche. Problems of love, children’s injuries, excessive ambitions … His main character follows the same scheme of typical stories of women who suffer. This is your proposal, and it is well achieved, because it does not pretend. But this is not particularly original outside the pair of specific narrative ideas.

In addition, the structure of the film, which lacks a certain cohesion, does not help. Maria Callas It considers many problems, many intra -sex, which are intertwined without communicating with each other. We continue your problems with medicines, your romance with the Greek magnate Aristotle OnssisHis family inconsistencies … but gives the feeling that they see the free scenes of each of these sites. These are several films discovered in one, without which, related to the above or with the following, because they belong to very different aspects of their life.

The set, of course, allows you to establish the reasons for living soprano. But more sequence is missed. Especially because not all stories Maria Callas They are equally interesting or interesting. Some offer pieces of this brightness of the best Larrain, but others interfere with the rhythm without making it extremely.

Great technical exercise

In any case, the enormous efforts made in the formal aspect Maria CallasThe field without reaching superiority SpencerIN Larraín Yes, the body and soul are delivered to the visually stunning goldsmit. Production design is exquisite. Each photogram collects elegance, wealth. The director once again demonstrates that he has a privileged look in the compilation of images of a stubborn and stylized aesthetic force.

Maria Callas Screaming melancholy in every picture. The film directs its intensity with impregnable, non -button visual beauty. Not in vain, again, Larraín He received the most well -deserved nomination for the best photo at the Oscar of 2025.

May be Maria Callas He does not make all the justice that he owes a woman who gives his name. But just to see Angelina Jolie Body and soul delivered under a cozy direction LarraínIt is worth going to the cinema. This is a slow, rather irregular rhythm and does not cause the proximity of the director’s previous works. But this is also not a film, more or less unsuccessful.