Maria, the new biopic event by Pablo Larraín with Angelina Jolie, is revealed through a teaser full of grace.
In JackiePablo Larraín looked back on the life of Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of her husband. With an Oscar nomination for Natalie Portman. With the royal nightmare Spencerfive years later, he was interested in the hell lived by Lady Diana in the Windsor family. Again an Oscar nomination followed, this time for Kristen Stewart. Larraín finished the third film in the trilogy: Maria dedicated to the singer Maria Callas and with Angelina Jolie. The first opinions are in.
A year after winning the screenplay prize for his vampire The Countthe filmmaker was therefore back on the Lido. Maria was in fact in competition for the Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and since Jolie’s remarkable performance, it is obviously her possible nomination or even victory at the Oscars that many are talking about. The actress has already won an Oscar for best supporting actress for A stolen lifeby James Mangold, at only 24 years old. The first teaser for the glossy biopic Maria in any case came out.
Teaser du nouveau Pablo Larraín: Ave Maria
The film focuses on the final moments of Maria Callas’ life in 1977, while she is in Paris. We tend to iconize both the character of Maria Callas and Joliethrough this teaser all in music where she does not speak. She is often seen from behind, in profile or far away, in black and white, in a mirror, imposing, very well dressed. A distinction was made between “Maria”, the woman, and “La Callas”, the diva. Maria seems to be interested in this distinction.
The teaser does not forget to highlight its castinglandmark both for the world (Angelina Jolie) and more specifically for European countries like France and Italy (Pierfrancesco Favino in the role of Ferruccio Mezzadri, Alba Rohrwacher in the role of Bruna Lupoli). Pierfrancesco Favino appears with a bouquet of roses, as a spectator of a performance of Callas alongside Rohrwacher.
This teaser is beautiful but cold, somewhat resembling what many critics were saying at the Biennale. Finally, without words, it tells us little about the film apart from its very detailed aesthetic which multiplies both angles and supports. To find out if this is indeed “the role of her life” for Angelina Jolie, you will have to wait for the release on February 12, 2025 in France.
