The Prince Charles Cinema

Maria

Maria

  • 2024
  • 122mins
  • USA, Germany, Italy
  • (15)
  • LFF
Directed by Pablo Larraín Starring Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Tickets Are Only Available via BFI London Film Festival Website from Tuesday 17 September 2024 10:00am.

Click Here To Book

Angelina Jolie shines as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s empathetic reimagining of her final days in 1970s Paris.

Continuing his run of acclaimed and original biopics (Neruda, Jackie), Pablo Larraín reunites with Spencer writer Steven Knight to explore who Callas really was, away from the fame and tabloid headlines. In poor health, Callas wanders around a picturesque Paris as she recounts to an adoring journalist the highs of her career and litany of past loves. Angelina Jolie gives a transforming performance, capturing the myriad layers and masks of this legendary singer’s personality, from pithy to heartbreakingly vulnerable, while showing flashes of the personality that saw her idolised as an opera star. Featuring a stellar cast that includes Valeria Golino, Pierfrancesco Favino and Alba Rohrwacher, Maria is a stunning addition to Larraín’s portrait of iconic women subjected to an alarming degree of scrutiny, while the world looked on.

Presented with English Subtitles

Sunday 20th October