Director: Pablo Larraín
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Maria is a 2024 German-Italian-American biographical drama directed by Pablo Larraín, starring Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas — the legendary Greek-American soprano whose voice reshaped opera in the twentieth century. The film chronicles the final chapter of her extraordinary life in 1970s Paris.
What is Maria about?
Paris, the 1970s. Maria Callas — once the undisputed queen of the opera stage — has retreated from public life, living in a grand but quiet apartment as her health slowly declines. Haunted by the echoes of a career that electrified concert halls around the world, she moves through her days accompanied by loyal household staff and a journalist who coaxes her to reflect on who she was and who she has become. As memories of her greatest performances surface alongside the regrets and private joys of a life fully lived, Maria wrestles with questions of identity, legacy, and the cost of genius. The film unfolds as an intimate character study rather than a conventional biography — focusing on the woman behind the myth rather than the milestones of her public career.
Cast & crew
Angelina Jolie leads the film with a fully committed physical and vocal performance, anchoring every scene as the aging diva. Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino and Alba Rohrwacher play her devoted staff, while Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Valeria Golino, and Caspar Phillipson round out the ensemble. The film was directed by Pablo Larraín, the Chilean filmmaker known for his intimate portraits of iconic women.
Context & significance
Pablo Larraín has built a distinctive body of work around real women whose inner lives were obscured by their public personas — his earlier biographical films about Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana established that template. Maria continues this thread, now trained on the world's most celebrated opera voice. For Persian-speaking viewers in the diaspora, the film carries particular resonance: Callas was herself a figure defined by exile, displacement, and the tension between artistic identity and personal loss — themes that speak across cultural boundaries. The story is set in Paris at a moment when she had stepped away from performing, making it an unusually quiet and reflective portrait of artistic greatness at its twilight.
Where & how to watch
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