Maria - Reviews

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

...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.

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

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

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.

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

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’s broadly theatrical but delicately unraveling performance feels immersive and self-revealing in equal measure, as if Maria Callas is a conduit for her to reclaim her own identity as an artist and a human being.

In Maria, Angelina Jolie gives a career-defining performance as a haunted opera diva.

Angelina Jolie är karismatisk och självklar som Maria Callas.

Med ”Maria”, om operadivan Maria Callas, kompletterar Pablo Larraín sin filmsvit om tre av 1900-talets mest glamorösa, upphöjda kvinnor som älskades av världen men kvävdes av ensamhet.

...en stiløvelse, hvor man har sat en af verdens smukkeste kvinder til at portrættere en af verdens dygtigste.