The Divine Callas lands on the Lido with Angelina Jolie
Pablo Larraín restores the biography of the great opera singer, magnificently played by Joile. Alongside her, Rohrwacher and Favino
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A Callas visited by the ghost of Onassis
- Italian arias, Rohrwacher and Favino
- The thinness of the body
- Steven Knight's excellent dialogue
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More ghosts at the Venice Film Festival. This time those of the mind haunting the last days of Maria Callas, played with suffering, acrimony, whimsy and pain by a great Angelina Jolie, already an excellent candidate for the coppa Volpi at the 81st Venice Film Festival.
Pablo Larraín illuminates the life of the great opera singer through the delusions that inhabit her home and the streets of 1970s Paris, where she had her last residence and where she died at the age of 53 in 1977.
A Callas visited by the ghost of Onassis
.Addicted to sedatives and anxiolytics, her voice now atrophied, Maria is above all tormented by her last great love, Aristotle Onassis (Haluk Bilginer), with whom she talks, convinced of his presence. Together with him, Maria traces the birth of their passion, the abandonment of her first husband and the glories of success that wane as her relationship with Onassis becomes more important. In her mind, Maria condemns him for marking her decline as an artist, but at the same time she loves him and feels gripped by his memory.
Italian arias, Rohrwacher and Favino
Larraín shows Callas in an attempt to return to the masterful interpreter who dominated the international opera scenes, through almost all Italian arias from Puccini to Verdi. Italian are the arias, which Jolie interprets with credibility, and Italian is the baptism of unexpected success at La Fenice, as she replaced the titular singer.
Also Italian are the comprimari of the narrative, the two servants, played by Alba Rohrwacher and Pierfrancesco Favino, who fail to stand out. Valeria Golino's part as Yakinthi, Maria's sister, is small but incisive.
