Angelina Jolie says Mary, Her latest film, in which she plays the world's greatest opera singer, is about an artist struggling with creative difficulties and doubts.
“Towards the end of her life she had high points and high points, where she could really feel like she connected, and moments where she felt like she couldn’t, and that really broke her and she felt like she couldn’t connect,” Jolie added when introducing a private screening at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday.
Pablo Larrain's biopic MaryBased on true accounts, it tells the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic life story of the world's greatest opera singer, relived and revisited during her final days in 1970s Paris.
Jolie, introducing the film, said that Callas passed away during “the darkest periods of her life.” Then the film's protagonist welcomed the Toronto audience and the screening, “because I would like her to be here and see that you are here to learn about her life and remember her music and to be among people who appreciate art.”
Netflix has acquired Larrain Mary ahead of the film's world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 29. After its debut on the Lido and screening in Toronto, the film will launch on the streaming site at an undisclosed date.
In addition to Jolie, the cast also includes Pierfrancesco Favino (Slowly, The Hummingbird), Alba Rohrwacher (The Chimera, Hungry hearts), Haluk Bilginer (Winter sleep), Kodi Smith-McPhee (The Power of the Dog, Elvis) and Valeria Golino (Portrait of the Lady on Fire, Calm Chaos).
The screenplay was written by Steven Knight (Spence, Peaky Blinders, Eastern Promises). Producers include Juan de Dios Larraín for Fabula, Jonas Dornbach for Komplizen Film and Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment, a Fremantle company. Worldwide sales for Mary will be managed by FilmNation Entertainment