Official Trailer
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- Angelina Jolie, Valeria Golina, Kodi Smit-McPhee
- January 10th 2025
- 123
- Pablo Larrain
Angelina Jolie plays the opera legend Maria Callas during the final week of her life in 1977.
After Jackie and Spencer, director Pablo Larrain completes his trilogy of films about legendary 20th-Century women with Maria, a biographical drama about the opera star Maria Callas.
Much like its predecessors, Maria doesn’t cover the length and breadth of the soprano’s life and career and instead focuses on a very specific moment in time.
This particular story is set a week before the singer’s death in September 1977. During her final week, Maria spends her time wandering the streets of Paris, trying to regain her declining voice and reminiscing about the past.
She is on a lot of medication and is very lonely, with only her live-in butler Ferruccio (Pierfrancesco Favino) and housekeeper Bruna (Alba Rohrwacher) for company.
Having retired from performing, she also feels very lost without the adulation, the voice she once had, and her love Aristotle Onassis (Haluk Bilginer).
The film, written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight,...
