Angelina Jolie’s new Netflix movie, Maria—which began streaming today—marks the third based-on-a-true-story movie from director Pablo Larraín about a famous, tragic woman. First was Jackie, the 2016 drama about Jacqueline Kennedy, followed by Spencer, 2021’s Princess Diana biopic. But Maria—about the legendary Greek opera singer Maria Callas—might be the story that American audiences are least familiar with.
Directed by Larraín, with a script by Steven Knight (who also wrote Spencer), Maria stars Angelina Jolie as Callas in the final days of her life, when she was living in near-isolation in Paris in the 1970s. Also starring Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Aggelina Papadopoulou, Maria opts to zoom in on one chapter of the great singer’s life, rather than give viewers a complete overview.
For some, this movie might be the first introduction the iconic Greek opera singer. With that in mind, here’s what you
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