2024 · biography · drama
Maria
Directed by Pablo Larraín2h 3m2024
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.
Our read: Maria (2024) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive biography · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured biography / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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