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The Final Outfits: Massimo Cantini Parrini on Maria‘s Costumes
Angelina Jolie in Maria A sumptuously shot psychological portrait of one of history’s greatest divas, Maria extends director Pablo Larraín’s explorations of iconic, tragically fated women in Jackie and Spencer. Angelina Jolie brings her own glamorous mythology to an impressionistic take on opera star Maria Callas’s final days before her death in 1977 at age 53. Like its predecessors, Maria eschews biopic convention, prioritizing an evocative aesthetic over a tidy narrative as, throughout, we see Callas onstage and off, in black-and-white and color and throughout various stages of her career from the 1950s onward. In all those phases, Callas is inevitably well-dressed in costumes […]
