
MARIA (12A) 2h 4m MATINEE 4PM * With Open Captions
Fri 7 February @ 4:00 pm
£7.50 – £10.00
Dir: Pablo Lerrain
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher
Genre: Drama, Biography
Continuing his run of acclaimed and original biopics (Neruda, Jackie), Pablo Larraín reunites with Spencer writer Steven Knight to explore who Callas really was, away from the fame and tabloid headlines. In poor health, Callas wanders around a picturesque Paris as she recounts to an adoring journalist the highs of her career and litany of past loves. Angelina Jolie gives a transforming performance, capturing the myriad layers and masks of this legendary singer’s personality, from pithy to heartbreakingly vulnerable, while showing flashes of the personality that saw her idolised as an opera star. Featuring a stellar cast that includes Valeria Golino, Pierfrancesco Favino and Alba Rohrwacher, Maria is a stunning addition to Larraín’s portrait of iconic women subjected to an alarming degree of scrutiny, while the world looked on.
“What continuously both grounds and elevates the film is Jolie, her humanity, sensitivity and loneliness aching through the screen. Jolie is staggeringly good. Perhaps the best she’s ever been.” Empire
*Open captions, similar to subtitles on a foreign film, are displayed on the screen for everyone to see. However, unlike subtitles, open captions will also include descriptions of other sounds that may occur in the film to benefit a deaf or hard-of-hearing audience member.
Doors open from 3pm . Film starts at 4pm.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE