Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Maria,” Pablo Larraín’s drama about the legendary American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas, begins on the day of her death, September 16, 1977.
As thin as a wraith, clad in a white nightgown, she has collapsed on the living-room floor of her very grand Paris apartment.
The film then flashes back to one week before; most of it takes place during that week (though it’s dotted with key episodes from Callas’s life).
So we know exactly where this is going. But we don’t just know where it’s going because the movie is set during that fateful final week.
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