Maria - Reviews

...an exquisitely crafted tone poem with Angelina Jolie enacting Maria Callas' final days.

Angelina Jolie superbly portrays the high and low notes of soprano's career.

Angelina Jolie reminds us what an accomplished actress she can be.

What continuously both grounds and elevates the film is Jolie, her humanity, sensitivity and loneliness aching through the screen.

...a tender eulogy for a remarkable talent.

The reward is the beautiful and heart-swelling two hours you’ll have the privilege of spending with La Callas, alongside a director who wants nothing more than to share his immense love for her. 

Ultimately, though, Maria is a showcase for Jolie, who’s magnetic as the flamboyantly attired star.

Jolie obviously prepared for this role, and impressively so, especially in scenes where we get a sense of the varying rate of Callas’s vibrato, the veins in her hands and neck bursting with the flow of blood and music.

Angelina Jolie delivers a career best performance in ‘Maria’.

...the film is a trance throughout. It’s hard to stop watching Maria, to stop listening to La Callas, to leave her charming little makeshift family for too long.

Angelina Jolie plays the diva in magnificent stroll around the cult of Callas.

...er visuelt afsindigt smuk og helstøbt, og hvis man trænger til et skud overklasseinteriører, bedårende balkjoler og fikse habitter – og selvfølgelig fejende opera – skal man straks løse billet.

Angelina Jolie är trovärdig primadonna som minns större dagar.

Angelina Jolie rörande som döende Maria Callas.