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Angelina Jolie's joyful demeanor on her way home
from the Venice Film Festival was not unexpected, given the enthusiastic welcome she
received for her role in the biopic Maria. The 49-year-old actress, who won accolades from
critics for her role in Pablo Larraín's film, decided not to attend any more events in the
city as she got ready to depart Italy on Friday. As she boarded a water taxi, Angelina
flaunted her sophisticated sense of fashion by dressing in a short-sleeved
trench coat over loose white slacks. The previous evening, the actor made a
stunning appearance at Maria's premiere, which resulted in an eight-minute
standing ovation for the movie. It was met with a response
similar to Brendan Fraser's after his Oscar-winning performance in
The Whale, his comeback performance. Following the response, Angelina
became noticeably upset, wiping away tears and averting
her face from the applause. Several admirers announced following the
film's debut that it had ignited Angelina Jolie's quest to win her second
Academy Award in 2025, precisely 25 years after she won the Supporting
Actress Oscar for Girl, Interrupted. Posts on X stated things like, "It
seems like there will be a race for best actress at the Oscars between
Cate Blanchett and Angelina Jolie;" I'm very sorry for Soairse Ronan and
Amy Adams, but Angelina Jolie will win the Oscar. Perhaps now isn't the best
moment for them to share an Oscar together; "This is the start of the
Angelina Jolie Oscar campaign." The biopic shows Maria in the last week of
her life, just before her death in 1977, at the time when she was acclaimed as
the greatest opera singer in history. She was renowned not only for her amazing voice, which elevated her to the status of one of the
greatest opera singers of the 20th century, but also for her stunning good looks, which
highlighted her numerous romantic relationships. Throughout her final years, Maria
struggled with her health, and the movie highlights her declining mental state
as she fantasizes of maybe performing again, putting her marriage to Ari
Onassis front and center. Although the movie has had a favorable
welcome, reviews have been more divided, with many complimenting Angelina's performance. Despite calling her role a "whining, self-pitying, endlessly needy victim," he remarked, Jolie
provides one of her best performances to date. Although she appears to have trained for seven
months before being prepared to perform in public for the first time, she is utterly
believable in the role and even performs some of her own warbling in addition to some
excellent lip-synching to the real Callas. "This may be a flawed depiction of Callas, but not by her." I'm not an expert, but I
was unable to distinguish between the two. As he gave the movie two stars and said, "This
is a film fed by, and consistently cutting to, the operas that defined its subject,"
Kevin Maher concurred. However, hardly a single scene is operatic in terms
of emotion. It is clumsily, willfully flat. Nicholas Barber of the BBC gave
the movie three stars, saying, "It's also too adoring and reverential to let us
sympathize with its supposedly fragile heroine." 'Unusually for a drug-addled, terminally
ill person, Jolie's Callas never fails to look stunning, and she consistently
exudes a sense of dignity, composure, and confidence, surpassing everyone in her path.' With a rating of four stars, Robbie
Collin of The Telegraph wrote, "Jolie is given ample space to
dazzle, but less to surprise." However, she dazzles with
her deft grasp of how camp to go without making things too
dramatic for their own benefit. Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair stated
that the movie "struggles to hit the high notes," despite Angelina's performance. "If a few details were taken out,
Maria could be any grand diva—this hazy image of a woman swanning through
her last week of life," he remarked. Stephanie Bunbury, a journalist for Deadline, called Angelina "an almost
magical match for the real diva." She stated, "The actor's dedication to
this creation is evident at every turn. She learned to sing for the role knowing
that Callas was only happy when on stage; the voice we hear is a blend
of Callas and Jolie's own." Xan Brooks, a critic for The Guardian,
gave the movie four stars and stated, "I was prepared to categorize this
as a pretentious diversion that would eventually become a high-class
memento halfway through." However, it conquered me, won me over, and by the end
credits—God help us—I was praying for more. 'It's a career-defining bit of
synchronicity, supported by one of Jolie's very best performances,' wrote
Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent, complimenting Angelina's performance
writing even more. Her work has always focused on having a flawless sense
of control over tone and posture. Angelina "seizes our attention, playing
Maria as a woman of wiles who is imperious, mysterious, fusing the life force
of a genius diva with the downbeat emotional fire of a femme fatale,"
according to Variety's Owen Gleiberman. "Jolie reminds you that she can be
a deadly serious actor of commanding subtlety and power for the first time in years." For her part in the movie, Angelina trained as a
singer for seven months; she played Maria Callas at the same moment when the singer was on
the verge of death and losing her voice. According to the producers, they
combined Angelina's and Callas' voices. She described her anxiety of performing
in front of an audience, saying, "Everyone here knows I was terribly nervous
about the singing." I trained for about seven months because you can't do anything halfway
when working with (director) Pablo Larrain. He makes the most amazing demands that you
actually put in the effort, learn, and practice. "Because my sons were there and helped
to block the door so that no one else could enter, I was really nervous
when I sang for the first time." And I felt uneasy. Pablo was decent enough to
put me in a tiny room and take me all the way to La Scala. He therefore gave me time to
develop. I had never performed in public, so I was afraid I wouldn't measure up to her. The movie, according to Pablo Larrain,
is a celebration of Callas' life. Jolie expressed her wish that the singer realized
how loved she was towards the end of her life. Hailed as the greatest voice in opera history, Callas died in 1977 at the young age of 53
following a period of poor health and seclusion. After her husband Ari Onassis
left her for Jackie Kennedy, the widow of JFK, she had been devastated. Angelina has portrayed well-known figures on
screen before: in the 1998 film Gia, she played the tragic supermodel Gia Carangi, and in the 2007
film A Mighty Heart, she played Mariana Pearl. The director, most known for her biopics Jackie
(starring Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy) and Spencer (starring Kristen Stewart as Princess
Diana), said: "It has been a long-awaited dream to be able to combine my two most intense
and personal passions, opera and cinema." "Working with Angelina, an incredibly
courageous and inquisitive artist, is an incredible opportunity." An authentic blessing. Steven Knight wrote Maria before
the Hollywood WGA strike and was given a SAG-AFTRA temporary agreement. Callas was born in 1923 and died
in 1977. She received her training in Greece and Italy after being
born in America to Greek parents. She was renowned not only for her amazing voice, which elevated her to the status of one of the
greatest opera singers of the 20th century, but also for her stunning good looks, which
highlighted her numerous romantic relationships.