At the Oscars ceremony earlier this year, Emma Stone won her second Oscar for Best Actress, just seven years after winning her first. You might think that winning multiple acting Oscars is an extreme rarity, but you would be wrong. Stone has become the 45th No artist has ever conferred more than one distinction.
Why am I bringing this up? Because if anyone thinks that Angelina Jolie She can’t win the Best Actress Oscar at the next Academy Awards because she’s already won it once before – in another category, mind you, Best Supporting Actress, for example. Girl Interruptedwhich came out exactly 25 years ago — then I have news for you: think again.
Jolie certainly made her case with a bold and high-flying performance as the legendary but troubled opera singer. Marie Callas In Marriedthe last part of the film by the Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain‘s unofficial trilogy about remarkable 20th-century women who died too young (the previous two are from 2016) Jackie and 2021 Spencer), which had its North American premiere 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 performs it. How did they get Jolie to sing, who, to my knowledge, has never sung much before – unlike the actresses who have played Callas on stage in Master classincluding Patti LuPone And Zoe Caldwell — does it look like “La Divina”? The answer, apparently, is that Jolie studied for months and did perform the music we hear in the film — which was then digitally mixed with Callas’ own voice.
Whatever they did, it worked as well as could be hoped, because while we know Jolie can’t sing like Callas, there’s no evidence of that on screen – good luck finding any examples where the movement of her mouth doesn’t match the sound of her voice coming out of the speakers. If there had been, that would have been the end of the movie. Instead, it’s just the beginning.
Angelina Jolie plays Callas, who was once one of the most famous women in the world and was constantly hounded by the press, something Jolie is somewhat aware of. She plays a woman in her fifties who is haunted by the sound of her own voice when she was stronger, to the point where she can’t even listen to recordings of it. These days, she only really leaves her stunning Parisian apartment when she needs a dose of adulation from her fans. Most of the time, against the entreaties of her faithful butler (Pierfrancesco Favinowhich looks like Alfred Molina) and housekeeper (Alba Rohrwacherwhich looks like Andrea Riseborough), she bursts a plot of pills that eat away at her physical and mental health, one of which, in particular, triggers the illusion that she is being interviewed about her life by a journalist who is not really there (The power of…
