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| Pablo Larraín: Maria (IT 2024) with Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas. |
Wikipédia l'encyclopédie libre: "Maria est un film multinational réalisé par Pablo Larraín, sorti en 2024. Il s'agit d'une fiction sur la cantatrice grecque Maria Callas. Il se concentre sur les derniers jours de sa vie dans les années 1970 alors qu'elle vit à Paris".
Synopsis
Au cours de la dernière semaine de sa vie, Maria Callas, la plus célèbre cantatrice du XXe siècle, qui a perdu ses facultés vocales, se remémore sa carrière et sa vie, particulièrement sa relation (de 1959 à 1968) avec Aristote Onassis (1906-1975).
Elle se rappelle notamment sa rencontre avec le président Kennedy (1917-1963), dont la veuve épousera Onassis en 1968. Une autre scène la montre au chevet d'Onassis mourant, lui disant qu'il l'attendra à Athènes, après sa mort. Mais leur entretien est interrompu par l'arrivée de Jacqueline.
Maria Callas vit depuis plusieurs années recluse dans un appartement à Paris, avec un majordome et une gouvernante. Durant ces quelques jours, elle rencontre un cinéaste qui tourne un film à son sujet. Elle rencontre aussi (contre son gré) son médecin, qui l'informe de son mauvais état de santé et lui recommande d'éviter toute fatigue. Malgré cela, elle prépare une prestation.
Wikipédia:
Titre original : Maria
2024 Pays de production : Allemagne, États-Unis, Émirats arabes unis, Italie. Sociétés de production : Apartment Pictures, Fabula Pictures, Fremantle Media Company et Komplizen Film. Production : Jonas Dornbach, Juan de Dios Larraín et Lorenzo Mieli. Producteur délégué : Miki Emmrich
Réalisation : Pablo Larraín
Scénario : Steven Knight
Photographie : Edward Lachman - Format : couleur et noir et blanc
Direction artistique : Attila Illés
Costumes : Massimo Cantini Parrini
Distribution
Angelina Jolie : Maria Callas
Aggelina Papadopoulou : Maria Callas jeune
Valeria Golino : Yakinthi Callas
Haluk Bilginer : Aristote Onassis
Alba Rohrwacher : Bruna Lupoli
Pierfrancesco Favino : Ferruccio Mezzadri
Kodi Smit-McPhee : Mandrax
Alessandro Bressanello : Giovanni Battista Meneghini
Caspar Phillipson : John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Vincent Macaigne : docteur Fontainebleau
Lydía Koniórdou : Lista Callas, mère de Maria et Yakinthi
Stephen Ashfield : Jeffrey Tate
Langue originale : anglais
Durée : 124 minutes
Genre : drame biographique
Dates de sortie :
Italie : 29 août 2024 (Mostra de Venise)
États-Unis (festival) : 29 août 2024 (Telluride)
États-Unis : 27 novembre 2024
Finlande : 24 janvier 2025
France : 5 février 2025
Vu dimanche, le 16 février 2025, MK2 Bastille (Côté Beaumarchais), 4 boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris 11e
Telluride Film Festival 2024: Made possible by a donation from Brian & Rene Hollins. Larry Gross: "With NERUDA, JACKIE, SPENCER and EL CONDE the Chilean director Pablo Larraín is established as cinema’s most masterful, unconventional biographer. Here, he contemplates the ailing opera legend Maria Callas as she seeks to return to performing. Her loving housemaid (Alba Rohrwacher) and stoic butler (Pierfrancesco Favino) try to protect her; a compassionate accompanist (Stephen Ashfield) hopes to revive her career, and an enigmatic reporter (Kodi Smit-McPhee) draws out her deepest memories. Angelina Jolie is alternately severe and witty, cruel and tender, imperious and fragile, a hypnotic blend of fire and ice, a role she was made to play. Larraín offers us tantalizing glimpses of Callas in her signature roles as Medea, Anne Boleyn and Madame Butterfly and brief moments from her tortured relationship with Aristotle Onassis (Haluk Bilginer). It’s a jewel of a film, distilled to its essence by Larraín, screenwriter Steven Knight, and cinematographer Ed Lachman, who captures Callas’ tragic passion for art and life." –LG (Germany-Italy-U.S.-Hungary-France-Greece, 2024, 122m) In person: Pablo Larraín, Angelina Jolie, Ed Lachman
AA: I see Pablo Larraín's Maria back to back after Costa-Gavras's Le dernier souffle, a film about the many ways to face the final curtain - from denial to embracing the best things in life (love and friendship) for one last time in a glorious celebration.
Maria is about denial.
In her last days, Maria Callas lives in delusion and denial. Reality and hallucination become one. She lives multiple lives: the past and the present, actuality and dreamworld. The highest order is music. She lives all her primadonna roles.
"Vissi d'arte" grows into the signature song above all: "I lived for art, I lived for love, I never harmed a living soul! With a discreet hand I relieved all misfortunes I encountered".
Flashbacks cover brutal tragedies, from childhood abuse during the Nazi occupation of Greece to the love marriage to Aristotle Onassis who required Maria Callas to discontinue her career as an opera singer. Increasingly dependent on drugs and medication, her health and voice ruined, Maria dies in her Paris apartment while her butler and housemaid are visiting the grocery store.
The performance as Maria Callas is a tour de force by Angelina Jolie. It is a shocking tragedy about ultimate solitude after a life in the spotlights of the grandest opera houses.
The production is perfect.
Like The Red Shoes, Maria is "about art worth dying for", to quote Michael Powell. The film is full of immortal music. The selection is from the angle of "the greatest hits of the opera". But these hits are the greatest for a reason.
The focus is on tragedy. There was also a warm and funny side that we hardly see. The general overwhelming impression is the glory of music.
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SOUNDTRACK FROM IMDB:
Otello Act 4: 'Ave Maria' (Desdemona)
Performed by Maria Callas, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Conductor: Nicola Rescigno
Written by Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito
A Warner Classics Release, (p) 1964 Parlophone Records Limited
Remastered 2014 Parlophone Records Limited
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company
I Puritani, Act 2: 'Qui la Voce Sua Soave' (Elvira)
Performed by Maria Callas, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Conductor: Arturo Basile
Written by Vincenzo Bellini, Carlo Pepoli (as Carlo Graf Pepoli)
(p) 1950 Fonit Cetra, Warner Music Italia Srl
Remastered (p) 2014 Fonit Cetra, Warner Music Italia Srl
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company
Norma, Act 1: 'Casta Diva' (Norma, Coro)
Performed by Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (as Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano)
Conductor: Tullio Serafin
Written by Vincenzo Bellini, Felice Romani
A Warner Classics Release, (p) 1954 Parlophone Records Limited
Remastered 2014 Parlophone Records Limited
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company
La Traviata, Act 1: 'Sempre Libera' (Violetta, Alfredo)
Performed by Maria Callas, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Conductor: Gabriele Santini
Written by Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave
(p) 1954 Fonit Cetra, Warner Music Italia Srl
Remastered (p) 2014 Fonit Cetra, Warner Music Italia Srl
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company
Gianni Schicchi: 'O Mio Babbino Caro'
Performed by Maria Callas
Carmen - L'Amour Est un Oiseau Rebelle (Habanera)
Performed by Dimitris Kyriakopoulos, John Voulgaris, Nikolaos Georgedakis, Spyridon Aineias Nikas
Written by Georges Bizet
(p) Maria Film Ltd.
Happy Birthday Mr. President
Performed by Marilyn Monroe
Written by Mildred J. Hill, Patty S. Hill (as Patty Smith Hill)
(p) Fox Archives/Fox Movietone
La Wally, Act 1: 'Ebben? Ne Andrò Lontana' (Wally)
Performed by Maria Callas, The Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Tullio Serafin
Written by Alfredo Catalani, Luigi Illica
A Warner Classics Release, (p) 1955 Parlophone Records Limited
Remastered 2014 Parlophone Records Limited
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company
Anna Bolena, Act 2: 'Piangete Voi?... Al Dolce Guidami Castel Natio' (Anna Bolena, Smeton, Lord Percy, Hervery, Lord Rochefort, Chorus)
Performed by Maria Callas, The Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Nicola Rescigno
Written by Gaetano Donizetti, Felice Romani
A Warner Classics Release, (p) 1959 Parlophone Records Limited
Remastered 2014 Parlophone Records Limited
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company
Medea, Act 3: 'E Che? Io Son Medea!' (Medea, Coro, Giasone, Neris)
Performed by Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (as Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano)
Conductor: Tullio Serafin
Written by Luigi Cherubini, Luigi Arditi
A Warner Classics Release, (p) 1958 Parlophone Records Limited
Remastered 2014 Parlophone Records Limited
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company
Tosca, Act 2: 'Vissi D'Arte' (Tosca)
Performed by Maria Callas, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Written by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
A Warner Classics Release, (p) 1965 Parlophone Records Limited
Remastered 2014 Parlophone Records Limited
Courtesy of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH, a Warner Music Group Company
Why I Snort Cocaine (Giati Foumaro Kokaini)
Performed by Aggelina Papadopoulou, Erophilie Panagiotarea (as Erofili Panagiotarea), Lydia Koniordou
Written by Panagiotis Tountas
(p) Maria Film Ltd
An Ending (Ascent)
Written by Brian Eno
(c) Opal Music
Courtesy of Universal Music Publishing GmbH
(p) 2019 Virgin Records Limited - mit Freundicher Genehmigung der Universal Music GmbH
Carmen - L'Amour Est un Oiseau Rebelle (Habanera)
Performed by Aggelina Papadopoulou
Written by Georges Bizet
(p) Maria Film Ltd
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