(2024, Italy, Germany, 124')
After Jackie (2016), about Jackie Kennedy, and Spencer (2021), dedicated to Princess Diana, the Chilean director returns to the Lido with the final chapter of a trilogy of biopics about women who made history. Angelina Jolie portrays the greatest opera singer of all time, Maria Callas, “the Divine.” Larraín reconstructs her final days, during which she dreamed of an impossible return to the stage from her golden Parisian apartment, immersed in memories of her brilliant career and tumultuous life.
Chilean director and screenwriter (Santiago, Chile, 1976), Larraín gained fame with Tony Manero (2007), presented at the Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and awarded at the Turin Film Festival. He returned to Cannes, again in the Quinzaine, in 2012 with No – The Days of the Rainbow, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, and in 2016 with Neruda. He has participated multiple times in competition at the Venice Film Festival: in 2002 with Post Mortem, in 2016 with Jackie, in 2019 with Ema, in 2021 with Spencer, and in 2023 with El Conde.
