The American actress Angelina Jolie He dared to put his voice at the service of the immortal Maria Callas in the movie Maria from Chilean Pablo Larrainwhich premiered yesterday in competition at the 81st Venice Film Festival.
“For me, the reference was the fans of Maria Callas“Those who love opera, I don’t want to let them down,” Jolie, 49, told a news conference.
With this role as “diva assoluta”, Jolie returns to the big screen after several years of relative discretion.
Larraín, for his part, fulfills an old dream of an opera enthusiast and completes a triptych of women of character.
The actresses thank him: Natalie Portman Under Larraín’s orders, she played Jackie Kennedy in Jackie and was nominated for an Oscar in 2017, as was Kristen Stewart for Spencer, the portrait of Lady Di released in 2021.
“There are almost no films about opera stars,” said Larraín, who won the award for best script last year. Venice with The Count.
THE GREAT VOICE OF OPERA
Maria la Diva Callas, born in New York in 1923 and died at the age of 53 in 1977 at her home in Paris, she was the great female voice of opera in the 20th century.
Callas was also a star who knew how to take advantage of film and television to propel a meteoric career, which she drastically interrupted in 1973, after a tormented affair with the multimillionaire Greek Aristotle Onassis.
Larraín focuses on the last week of the soprano’s life, when she was hesitant to sing again, abusing medication and She lived tormented by the past and her unfortunate love affair.
Jolie explained that she trained her vocal cords for almost seven months to honor, to the best of her ability, the Callas myth.
But the ability of Larrain It consists of letting the actress’s modest voice emerge in the dramatic moments of the film, when Callas She insists, on the verge of humiliation, on continuing to train, even knowing that her tone has abandoned her.
When it comes to recreating the singer’s legendary stage personality, that voice merges and the original re-emerges, thus making the myth of The Divine reborn with all its strength in the screen.
The filmmaker meticulously recreates those memorable evenings in the history of opera in London, Milan o Paris. “Pablo is someone who doesn’t do things halfway,” Angelina confessed with a smile.
Away from the cinema and attached to her large family, the actress has been in the headlines for her high-profile divorce from the actor Brad Pitt.
Pitt is due to land on the Lido later this week for the premiere of a film with his friend George Clooney.
“When you reach a certain level of desperation, of grief, of love, at a certain point only certain types of sounds can embody those feelings,” the actress confessed.
“There are many things I will not say in this room, and that you probably already know,” he admitted. Callas “I share that vulnerability above all,” he concluded.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:
The film has conquered those who have seen it and although the distribution for Latin America has not yet been revealed, in North American territory Netflix will be in charge of projecting it, since it acquired the rights in the Show.
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2024-09-03 19:49:38