Maria 2024 MULTI.DVDRip Magnet Download
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Aristotle Onassis, longtime companion of Maria Callas, later married former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy
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Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last 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 heartbreaking true story of the world-renowned opera singer Maria Callas.. Kennedy was the subject of an earlier Pablo Larraín biopic, 2016's "Jackie", starring Natalie Portman in the titular role..
I’m in the mood for adulation
Maria Callas: Book me a table at a café where the waiters know who I am. Referenced in Close-Up: Why do We Need the Venice Film Festival? (2024).
Let's start with the pivotal performance of the title 'character'
Angelina Jolie is almost always exquisite to behold and listen to, especially on the big screen, and while she certainly delivers a prima donna performance here, it is only two thirds Maria Callas AT BEST, and at LEAST a solid one third of just Angelina being herself and using the 'character' of Maria to express her own emotions. Yes, it is an ultimately unwieldy and inconsistent performance, although she does rise to the occasion many times, because while she usually does a highly commendable job of mimicking the idiosyncratic accent and speech patterns of Callas, this is typically only achieved when there are reference points that she can use from interviews and similar footage of the late diva (i.e: Callas being sarcastic, Callas waxing lyrical about opera, etc). When there are no direct video or audio references for Angelina to default to – namely when 'Maria' is very upset or very angry in the film – Angelina merely reverts to her OWN way of getting emotional or 'dramatic'.There is an angry outburst at an outdoor cafe, for instance, where she actually reverts to her MALEFICENT persona, replete with the British accent that was not at all appropriate for Callas (because while Callas alternated between the American and British pronunciations, she never sounded "English").
These are GLARING ERRORS at heightened and climactic moments in the story!
Later in the film, there is a rather sad discussion between 'Maria' and her sister, and Angelina seems to forget that she is even PLAYING Callas by the end of that scene as she breaks down into tears and speaks her lines through sobs; we get a good glimpse into the wounded and frightened little girl inside Angelina JOLIE there, but *NOT* the aching child within Maria Callas because Angelina expresses herself entirely in her own manner of speaking and emoting. There are other moments like that too, although I cannot get into all of them without spoiling the movie.This is always the danger when it comes to the Modern "Method" of Acting, where the director leaves it entirely up to the star to do what they want to – and in moments of doubt, will instruct the Actor or Actress to have recourse to what Method Acting Teacher Lee Strasberg referred to as 'Emotional Recall' (getting the Actor/Actress to recall emotional experiences from their OWN life and channel THOSE *PERSONAL* EMOTIONS, which of course may not be appropriate at all for the CHARACTER, because the way two people express sadness or anger is naturally going to be very very different). CLASSICAL Acting Techniques are always superior – although almost never used today – because they require the Actor/Actress to use their *IMAGINATION* instead of their own experiences and personal emotions.
Angelina Jolie should have IMAGINED how "LA DIVINA" CALLAS would have acted/reacted in those key scenes – even if she didn't have video reference on Youtube
I guess it's a sad state of affairs indeed when even A-list Hollywood Celebrities are unable to use their imaginations, and cannot conjur up any scenario that they cannot pull up on their iPhone.
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