Filmmaker Pablo Larrain tells us about his Maria Callas biopic — part of an ongoing project to examine famous 20th century ...
Ditching the narrative shackles of biographical films that aims to encompass the entirety of a person’s life, even if that means just piecing together a sequence of significant events, Chilean auteur ...
As Bono once commented about Luciano Pavarotti, “the opera follows him off stage”. Legendary soprano Maria Callas would have known exactly what he meant, and she herself said “an opera begins long ...
Guy Hendrix Dyas used busts to reflect a broken woman. Pablo Larraín/Netflix The busts were sourced from Italy or prop houses in the U.K. They play heavily in the dressing room. “We had to ...
Pablo Larraín practically sings when he talks about music. He was listening to John Coltrane on his walk over to the Beverly ...
Pablo Larraín and Angelina Jolie at the New York Film Festival in September 2024. CREDIT: John Berry/GC Images/Getty He continued: “I think she did beautiful, beautiful work. Without that ...
She’s the jewel, and I had to create the jewelry box.” The “jewel” for “Maria” production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas was Angelina Jolie who embodies the famed opera soprano Maria Callas in “Maria,” now ...