The show captures the beloved ballet’s themes of love, betrayal and sacrifice in a theatrical three-act suite that felt ...

Kodi-Smit-McPhee (Memoir of a Snail, Elvis) is a young journalist named Mandrax (the same name as the drug Callas was known for taking) trying to document Maria’s final days, acting almost as a ...

Toward the end of Jessica Palud’s “Being Maria,” an uneven but poignantly restorative portrait of “Last Tango in Paris” star Maria Schneider (played here by “Happening” breakout Anamaria Vartolomei), ...

Angelina Jolie deserves some flowers for her steady performance as Maria Callas in the biopic “Maria,” even if the movie doesn’t completely do the opera legend justice. “Maria” focuses on the final ...

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Larraín's third inside portrait of a 20th-century female icon feels more limited than "Jackie" or "Spencer," because it's more hemmed in by fate. The apartment, with its chandeliers hanging from high ...

Being Maria (2024) Film Review, a movie directed by Jessica Palud, written by Vanessa Schneider, Laurette Polmanss and Jessica Palud and starring Anamaria Vartolomei, Matt Dillon, Giuseppe Maggio, ...

One of the more animated objects in “Maria” is Maria Callas’s piano, moved from room to room by servants at the whim of the ex-opera star. Its journeys have no discernible purpose. It weighs a ton.

This chronicle of the final week in the life of the opera legend follows ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ in the Chilean director’s trilogy about famous women caught in the emotional headlights. By David Rooney ...