Re: Movie Review: Maria (the last days of Maria Callas)

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:55:01 +0000, Owen Hartnett wrote:

Maria
>
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.
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This is probably the best of the current crop of musician biographies,
both of
real (Maestro/Bernstein) and not real (Tár/Lydia Tár). Angelina Jolie
does a
fine job making us believe she is Callas and it puts her music in the
forefront of the movie. According to the perpetrators of the movie, the
singing is a blend of both Callas's recordings and Jolie's singing, but
I
didn't hear much from Jolie, which is a Good Thing. They put some work
into
Jolie to get her to look like she's really singing, and it paid off,
much more
than Maestro's Bradley Cooper's conducting did.
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The story of Callas's last days (dying at age 53) is necessarily a sad
one,
but the movie doesn't revel in it, and Jolie shows fire and energy
despite
losing her lover, her voice, and her health.
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I'd go with a recommendation to watch it, not only to hear Callas's
greatest
hits, but for the story line and depiction.
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It's on Netflix and in theaters.

Thanks for the suggestion. I do not
like Callas enough to spend an hour
or so watching movies about her.
I definitely agree that her life was
a Greek tragedy.
Thx