Maria
WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for Maria.
The film takes place in 1970s Paris as Maria’s health declines.
Io son Medea by Cherubini performed by Maria Callas
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The song also carries into a flashback of Maria performing it live in front of a crowded audience.
Bruna tells Maria that it was magnificent in blind support as she makes her an omelet.
Maria answers some of Mandrax’s reflective questions about her life.
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A chorus of men walk over to Maria and sing at her.
She performs this song in an empty auditorium until her voice cracks.
Ave Maria (Piano Version) [feat.
Maria(2024) is a biographical drama about opera singer Maria Callas, directed by Pablo Larraín, starring Angelina Jolie. It concludes Larraín’s trilogy on iconic women.
Karoly Zentai] conducted by Peter Illenyi 30:00: This song plays as Ferruccio confronts Maria about her health.
A doctor arrives to see Maria who draws her blood for testing.
Ferruccio and Bruna discuss Maria’s poor eating habits and drug abuse.
Maria hallucinates seeing him before a flashback of the day they met at a party he threw for her.
She looks spacey and distant as she remembers performing it on stage.
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Her voice is so beautiful she makes him cry.
A flashback of her performing this song plays over her attempting to sing the song in the present timeline.
Maria’s husband is also there and tells her how obvious Onassis’s desire is for her.
They tell Ferruccio to ask Maria to stop playing music so loudly.
Maria has apparently been playing it nonstop for hours.
Ave Maria (Piano Version) [feat.
Habanera (Jazz Version) performed by Nikolaos Georgedakis feat.
A flashback of Maria and Onassis meeting John F. Kennedy plays.
Onassis tells Maria that Monroe doesn’t need to be a good singer because she has a great body.
He breaks the devastating news that continuing to sing opera would be a death sentence for her.
A flashback of her performance intertwines with her struggle to sing in the present timeline.
A rude reporter is secretly in the auditorium and confronts Maria outside the theater afterward.
The song continues over the beginning of Maria’s scene with Onassis on his deathbed.
The title translates to “I lived for art” and the lyrics center on being abandoned by God.
It concludes Larrain’s trilogy on iconic women.
