Maria Callas Biopic ‘Maria’ to Premiere at New York Film Festival
By Francisco SalazarPablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic “Maria” will screen at the New York Film Festival.
The film will be shown as part of the Spotlight section, a showcase of the fall’s most notable films.
The New York Film Festival wrote, “In an all-consuming performance at once poignant and imperious, Angelina Jolie becomes Maria Callas, the American-born, Greek opera singer whose voice and intensely dramatic life captivated millions before her death from a heart attack at the age of 53.”
The film is set in Paris, September 1977, during the final week of her life, and follows the legendary soprano as she negotiates her public image and private self and reckons with the increasingly blurred boundaries between the venerated “La Divina” and the vulnerable human being Maria.
Shot by Ed Lachman, the movie also stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, and Valeria Golino.
The film is set to make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier in September and is still searching for U.S. distribution.
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