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Releasing on Nov 27, 2024
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 4 m
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 4 m
Summary Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.
Directed By: Pablo Larraín
Written By: Steven Knight
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 4 m
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 2 h 4 m
Maria
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Summary Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.
Directed By: Pablo Larraín
Written By: Steven Knight
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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54% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
63
54% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
46% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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This is a portrait of all that an artist must sacrifice for their work and the ways that is amplified further as a female artist. It's a fable of fame and control, but it's also an ode to a woman who could only find peace by singing her heart out.
Jolie’s fragile brilliance is not to be questioned.
Maria is most truly involved with its subject when it abandons any impulse to scale her down, to reduce a titan to life-size, and opts instead to remember the singer as grandiose, allowing her memory — and Jolie’s perfectly suited performance of that memory — to fill the biggest screen.
Larraín’s freeform portrait of the diva’s final days seldom feels like more than a libretto: passionately sung, but lacking the detail and fullness needed to bring it to life.
There's plenty to admire in Maria, and in Jolie's performance, but my connection to certain scenes shouldn't be mistaken for my being emotionally engrossed. In fact, I typically felt kept at a distance.
Maria is the thinnest of the three, psychologically facile and overly mannered. There is something arbitrary, unspecific about the film.
This is a film fed by, and consistently cutting to, the operas that defined its subject. Yet there is not a single moment that is emotionally operatic. It is wilfully, wearily flat.
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Awards
Middleburg Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Cinema & Television
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Gotham Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination