At the Academy Awards ceremony held earlier this year, Emma's Stone received her second Oscar for Best Actress, just seven years after winning her first. You might think that winning multiple Oscars for acting would be an extreme rarity, but you'd be wrong. Stone has become the 45° the performer has never awarded more than one.
Why am I talking about this? Because if someone thinks that Angelina Jolie will not be able to win the Oscar for Best Actress at the next Academy Awards ceremony because she has already won one previously, in a different category, mind you, for Best Supporting Actress, for Girl, interruptedcame out exactly 25 years ago, then I have news for you: think again.
Jolie certainly did a great job with a bold, tour de force performance as the legendary but troubled opera singer. Maria Callas In Marythe last episode of the chilean director Pablo Larrain's unofficial trilogy about extraordinary women of the 20th century who died too young (the previous two were from 2016) Jackie and 2021 Spence), which had its North American premiere on Saturday afternoon at the Telluride Film Festival, just one day after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
First, let's address the obvious question: Callas had one of the greatest voices of all time. Jolie plays her. How could Jolie, who, to my knowledge, has never sung much before, unlike the actresses who have played Callas on the stage in Master classincluded Patti LuPone AND zoe caldwell —sounds like “The Divine”? The answer, apparently, is that Jolie studied for months and Done perform the music we hear in the film, then digitally mixed with Callas' own voice.
Whatever they did, it worked as well as it could, because while we know Jolie can't sing like Callas, there's no evidence of that on screen – good luck finding examples of her mouth moving that don't match the sound of her voice coming out of the speakers. If there had been, that would have been the end of this movie. Instead, it's just the beginning.
Jolie plays Callas, who was once one of the most famous women in the world and was relentlessly hounded by the press, something Jolie knows a little about, as a woman in her fifties who is obsessed with the sound of her voice when it was loudest, to the point where she can't even listen to recordings of it. These days, she leaves her gorgeous Paris apartment only when she needs a dose of fan adulation. Most of the time, despite the pleas of her faithful butler (Pierfrancesco Favinowhich looks like Alfredo Molina) and waitress (Dawn Rohrwacherwhich looks like Andrea Riseborough), she pops a amount of pills, which affect her physical and mental health, and one of which, in particular, triggers the illusion that she is being interviewed about her life by a journalist who in reality is not there (The Power of the Dog Oscar nominee Kodi Smith McPhee). Through this somewhat cheeky expository device, we learn about the ups and downs of his rollercoaster life.
You can argue about things like the film's pacing, which is a bit tortuous at times. But you can't argue about Jolie's performance or that of the lesser-known actors surrounding her, including Valeria Golinowho plays his sister Callas by YakinthiAND Haluk Bilginerwho plays her lover Aristotle Onassisboth make the most of their short screen time.
As far as Academy recognition goes, you can bank on a Best Actress nomination for Jolie, who would follow in the considerable footsteps of Natalie Portmanthe name for Jackie AND Model Kristen Stewart is one of the biggest stars in cinema.the name for Spence. Jackie It was also nominated for the awards for Best Costume Design and Best Original Score. Mary It doesn't have an original soundtrack, but it does have stunning clothes and jewelry from Max Cantini Parriniso there might be another nomination for the costume. The legendary lenser Ed Lachman got a nomination for best cinematography earlier this year for a film that very few people have seen, The Countso he can certainly get another one for this film, which Netflix — having acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the film earlier this week — will surely promote like crazy. And given the open season, a director nomination for Larraín or a nomination for best original screenplay for Knight Steven.